Pedro Noguera (born August 7, 1959) is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. He is recognized as a leading scholar of urban public education, equity, and school reform.

Noguera holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology and a teaching credential from Brown University and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Books

As author

  • The Imperatives of Power: Regime survival and the basis of political support in Grenada, 1951-1991 (1997). New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
  • City Schools and the American Dream: Fulfilling the Promise of Public Education (2003). New York: Teachers College Press. Winner, Forward Magazine Award for best book in education 2003; American Association of Educational Studies, Book of the Year Award, 2004.
  • (with Jean Yonomura Wing) Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement in Our Schools (2006). San Francisco, CA: Josey Bass.
  • The Trouble With Black Boys: Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education (2008). San Francisco: Wiley and Sons. (Winner American Education Studies Association Critics Choice Award; Schott Foundation Award for Research on Race and Gender; Scholastic Publishers Award)
  • (with A. Wade Boykin) Creating the Opportunity to Learning: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap (2011). Washington, D.C.: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
  • (with Edward Fergus and Margary Martin) Schooling for Resilience: Improving Life Trajectories for Black and Latino Boys (2014). Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.
  • The Schools We Need: Education, Inequality and America's Future (forthcoming). New York: New Press.[better source needed]

As editor

  • (with Shawn Ginwright and Julio Camarota) Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change (2006). New York: Routledge.
  • (with Carlos Alberto Torres) Social Justice Education for Teachers: Paulo Freire and the Possible Dream (2008). London, UK: Sense Publishers.
  • (with William Ayers, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Gregory Mitchie) City Kids, City Schools (2008). New York: New Press.
  • (with Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus) Invisible No More: Understanding and Responding to the Disenfranchisement of Latino Males (2011). New York: Routledge.
  • (with Alan Blankstein) Excellence Through Equity (2015). San Francisco: Corwin Press.
  • (with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram) Race, Equity and Education: The Pursuit of Equality in Education 60 Years After Brown (2015). New York: Springer Press.

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