About the Author
Pedro A. Noguera is a professor at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, and the co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). Noguera received show more the 2008 Race and Gender Equity Award from the Schott Foundation for Public Education. show less
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Works by Pedro A. Noguera
The Trouble With Black Boys: ...And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education (2008) 83 copies
Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap (2011) 79 copies
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for… (2006) — Editor — 25 copies
The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada from 1951-1991 (American… (1997) 1 copy
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The last fifty pages or so, in which Berkeley High School students add their voices to this story, are the most interesting of the book. We teachers need to encourage and listen to more discourses from students themselves about the shortcomings of our schools. As one student asks, rhetorically, "How could a discussion of student achievement and equity happen without the voice of students? In any type of real change within a system, the voice of the people who are directly affected must be part of the solution." Enough said!… (more)