Pedro Noguera: Challenging Racial Disparities in School Discipline Outcomes

Challenging Racial Disparities in School Discipline Outcomes:
Best Practices for Educators, Parents, and the Community”
a lecture by Pedro Noguera, PhD. Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University and Executive Director of
the Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

Dr. Noguera’s lecture highlights research-based strategies that can make our schools safe, equitable, and places where all students thrive. This event is hosted by the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver and co-sponsored by Denver Public Schools Division of Student Services, DU Latino Center for Community Engagement and Scholarship (DULCCES), Interdisciplinary Research Incubator for the Study of (In)Equality (IRISE) at DU, Morgridge College of Education, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University College, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Padres y Jovenes Unidos, and the Denver Classroom Teachers’ Association.

Recorded Monday, September 29, 2014 in the Boettcher Foundation Community Room, Craig Hall, 2148 S. High Street, Denver, CO 80208

About the speaker: Dr. Noguera is a sociologist whose scholarship and research focus on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts. Noguera has published more than 200 research and scholarly articles, monographs, research reports and editorials on topics such as urban school reform, education policy, conditions that promote student achievement, the role of education in community development, youth violence, and race and ethnic relations in American society.

Noguera is the author of several books, including The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada (Peter Lang Publishers, 1997), City Schools and the American Dream (Teachers College Press, 2003), Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation’s Schools (Josey Bass, 2006), The Trouble With Black Boys…and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education (Wiley and Sons, 2008), and Creating the Opportunity to Learn: Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap (ASCD, 2011) with A. Wade Boykin. His most recent book is Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectories of African American and Latino Boys (Harvard Education Press 2014) with Edward Fergus and Margary Martin.