Inspired by the successful teacher strike in West Virginia, teachers walked out in Oklahoma and Kentucky to protest wage and funding cuts. Dr. Noguera appeared on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes” alongside author Dana Goldstein...
Read moreThe Daily Bruin on the Center for Transformation
The UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools, founded by Dr. Noguera, recently launched in Los Angeles. The Daily Bruin published an article taking a look at the goals for the center and how it can help school districts affected by poverty...
Read moreDr. Noguera at NASBE
On November 2-4, Dr. Noguera will be giving the keynote speech at The National Association of State Boards of Education annual conference. The conference, themed “Beyond the State Plan: Excellence, Equity, Innovation,” draws state board of...
Read moreDr. Noguera on Waiving Community College Tuiton
The Daily Bruin reported on Assembly Bill 19, a bill that waives tuition for first-year community college students, which Governor Brown recently signed and reached out to Dr. Noguera for his thoughts. “One of the ironies people don’t realize is...
Read moreReimagine Education Conference
UCLA’s new Center for the Transformation of Schools is hosting the Reimagine Education Conference on November 9th to explore possibilities for reimagining the potential of education to empower the next generation of learners and consider...
Read moreDr. Noguera interviewed on Seattle’s KUOW Public Radio
Following his talk at the University of Washington on Tuesday night, Dr. Noguera was interviewed by Seattle’s KUOW Public Radio reporter Patricia Murphy about what Seattle-area schools are doing right. In their conversation, Dr. Noguera praised...
Read moreSmall Steps to Integration in New York Schools
De Blasio inherited a segregated school system where poor kids in the poorest neighborhoods were largely relegated to under-resourced schools. Despite his pledge to focus on reducing inequality, he’s done very little to address this issue...
Read moreHow a single-sex school in East Harlem offered young women a path out of poverty
As we continue to identify ways to break down barriers to opportunity and close the college access gap, we can look to an education model that took shape twenty years ago with 56 girls in East Harlem. When the seventh-graders walked through the...
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