Pedro Noguera

Pedro Noguera is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the Rossier School of Education and a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, where his work focuses on urban public education, equity, and school reform. A sociologist by training, he holds a B.A. and M.A. in sociology, a teaching credential from Brown University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Over the course of his career he has held endowed or distinguished professorships at UCLA, New York University, Harvard University, and UC Berkeley, and has been recognized as one of the nation’s leading scholars on issues of race, inequality, and education.

Noguera is a prolific author, credited with being the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles and monographs on schooling and social inequality. His work includes co-editing Excellence Through Equity: Five Principles of Courageous Leadership to Guide Achievement for Every Student, which examines how schools can reconcile excellence and equity for diverse learners. He has also authored Teaching Students Impacted by Poverty: An Illustrated Guide, reflecting his long-standing research and advocacy on how social and economic conditions shape educational opportunity, particularly for students in high-poverty communities.[