Pedro Noguera, will deliver the Allison Davis Lecture at Williams College12:00AM / Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Pedro Noguera, professor at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, will deliver the Allison Davis Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams campus. Entitled "Changing Racial Inequality in Our Schools," the talk is sponsored by the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Noguera is the author and editor of a number of books. Most recently released are the trio "Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools," "The Color of Success: Race and High-achieving Urban Youth," and "Beyond Resistance: Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth."
He is also the author of the book "City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education," in addition to numerous research articles published in major scholarly journals.
An urban sociologist, Noguera has been involved with urban education on many levels. In addition to serving as the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, Noguera is also co-director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS.)
Before joining the faculty of New York University, Noguera was professor of communities and schools at Harvard Graduate School of Education, and professor in social and cultural studies and director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley. A K-12 teacher for several years, Noguera continues to teach part-time in high schools.
He is the recipient of many awards for his efforts to further urban education. In 1995, he received an award from the Wellness Foundation for his research on youth violence and in 1997, he received the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award. He was named one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics in the U.S." by Hispanic Business Magazine. |
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