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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)

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New Book by Metro Scholars Noguera & FergusInvisible 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.

Steinhardt Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro) in collaboration with Rutgers University garnered a grant from the nonprofit group PENewark to design and implement a survey about how best to use the Facebook CEO’s $100 million pledge to improve the Newark school system. Since 2009, the Metro Center has been engaged with state, city, and local leaders in Newark to help reform the public school system in a project called the Broader, Bolder Approach to Education. The project is led by Pedro Noguera, Peter L. Agnew Professor, and the center’s executive director.

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Metro Center’s Upward Bound program completed its 1199 WorkForce program orientation process for 2011-2012

Powered by funding from the Ford Foundation, Victoria Foundation, and Prudential Foundation, Pedro Noguera, Executive Director of Metro Center, has launched a "Broader, Bolder Approach" initiative in Newark, NJ.