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  	Professor Pedro Noguera's Articles and Videos Access articles and videos by Dr. Pedro Noguera, the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University and the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education.
  	Marthas Diaz, Director of Metro Center’s Hip-Hop Education Center (HHEC) announces a partnership with Columbia University’s Institution for Urban and Minority Education (IUME). The IUME partnership will support and build upon HHEC’s research and think tank initiatives. One of the main goals of the collaboration is to develop a teaching certificate for teaching artists, in-service teachers, and students of education using Hip-Hop in the classroom and extended-day programs. In addition, HHEC and Columbia’s IUME will incubate two Scholars-in-Residence and the Hip-Hop history archival project. “The Metro Center has been committed to advancing education reform through research and innovative teaching methods. Working with HHEC and Ms. Diaz has been an organic process which continues to connect us to particular work in the classroom and the community.” Pedro Noguera, Director, Metro Center
  	NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) has been granted a two million six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars ($2625000) award to mount a new technical assistant center. The Center, directed by Nellie Mulkay, will provide technical assistance, professional development, and will disseminate information to support and strengthen the teaching and learning of Native and English language acquisition of LEP/ELLs.  As part of a NYS bilingual educational resource network, the focus is to promote high academic achievement for LEP/ELLs from various target languages and cultural backgrounds. The work for the NYS Statewide Language Regional Bilingual Educational Resource Network (RBERN) is supervised and guided by both the New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies and the New York City Department of Education Office of English Language Learners.
  	NYU Steinhardt Professor Pedro, Noguera is among the national top scorers in The 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings, released on January 4th 2012. Dr. Noguera is the Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings. Dr.Noguera, also the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University, joins with NYU scholar Diane Ravitch and Richard Arum to claim three of the top ten. The rankings focuses on extraordinary policy scholar who excels in five areas: disciplinary scholarship, policy analysis and popular writing, coning and quarterbacking collaboration, providing incisive media commentary, and speaking in the public square.(For Methodology Read More)
  Available at: Amazon.com	New Book by Metro Scholars Noguera & Fergus Invisible No More: Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys This groundbreaking new interdisciplinary volume, edited by renowned scholars Pedro Noguera, Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus, masterfully explores the highly complex nature of the myriad challenges and obstacles facing Latino males in contemporary American society. The contributors represent a cross section of disciplines, including health, criminal justice, education, literature, psychology, economics, labor, sociology and others. By drawing attention to the sweeping issues facing this segment of the population, this volume offers research and policy a set of principles and overarching guidelines for decreasing the invisibility, and thus the disenfranchisement of Latino men and boys.

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