Pedro Antonio Noguera, Ph.D.

Pedro Noguera is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. An urban sociologist, Noguera's scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. Noguera has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with several large urban school districts throughout the United States. He has also done research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and several other countries throughout the world.

Prior to joining the faculty at NYU, Noguera served as Professor at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Pedro Noguera has published on topics such as urban school reform, conditions that promote student achievement, youth violence, the potential impact of school choice and vouchers on public schools, and race and ethnic relations in American society. His most recent book, City Schools and the American Dream was published by Teachers College press in the fall of 2003.

Noguera has served as a member of the US Public Heath Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence and on numerous advisory boards to local and national education and youth organizations. Dr. Noguera was a K-12 classroom teacher for several years and continues to teach part-time in high schools. From 1986 -1988 he served as the Executive Assistant to the Mayor of Berkeley, and from 1990 - 1994 he was an elected member and the President of the Berkeley School Board.

The son of Caribbean immigrants, Noguera was born in NY City. He has been married for twenty-two years and he is the father of four children.

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