Name:		Dr. Pedro Noguera, Ph.D.
		Month:		July/August/September 2004
		Schools:		Brown, B.A., 1981 Brown, M.A. 1982
		Organization:		New York University, Steinhardt School of Education
		Title:		Professor, Steinhardt School of Education, Director of the Metro Center

An Ivy League Reflection
The best thing about my education at Brown was the exposure it provided to students from backgrounds quite different from my own. As a working class kid from Brooklyn I knew very little about the lives of the wealthy; that includes the Black elite that I came to know. Though I was originally resentful of their privilege, I managed to get over it after a while and got to know people who have become life long friends and colleagues. My education has also opened numerous doors for me throughout my professional career and provided me with a degree that is widely respected.

About Dr. Noguera
Pedro Noguera is a professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University and the Director of the Center for Research on Urban Schools and Globalization. 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.

From 2000 - 2003 Noguera served as the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From 1990 - 2000 he was a Professor in Social and Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pedro Noguera has published over one hundred research articles, monographs and research reports on topics such as urban school reform, conditions that promote student achievement, youth violence, the potential impact of school choice and vouchers on urban public schools, and race and ethnic relations in American society. His work has appeared in several major research journals and many are available online at inmotionmagazine.com. He is the author of The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997), and 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 Health Service Centers for Disease Control Taskforce on Youth Violence, the Chair of the Committee on Ethics in Research and Human Rights for the American Educational Research Association, 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. In 1995 he received an award from the Wellness Foundation for his research on youth violence, in 1997 he was the recipient of the University of California's Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Francisco and the Centennial Medal from Philadelphia University for his work in the field of education.

Noguera is the father of four children and he has been married to his wife, Patricia Vattuone, for twenty-two years.