Several weeks ago, Dr. Noguera was a featured speaker at the University of Washington Graduate School for it’s 2016-2017 Public Lecture Series. The series is a year-long conversation on the topic of “privilege” and features...
Read moreSeattle’s KING5 News Spotlights Dr. Noguera
Following his sold-out talk at the University of Washington, Dr. Noguera sat down with Seattle’s KING5 News to discuss bridging “the opportunity gap”. In addition to addressing ideas on how to engage kids and “holistic...
Read moreThe Common Core Costs Billions And Hurts Students
A sensible set of arguments by Diane Ravitch. If you don’t read the whole article this quote will help you to get the point: “If we really cared about improving the education of all students, we would give teachers the autonomy to...
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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