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 moreSan Luis Obispo’s KSBY News features Dr. Noguera
San Luis Obispo’s KSBY recently ran a story featuring Dr. Noguera speaking to high school teachers in Santa Maria. He stressed the importance of meeting the academic, social, and emotional needs of students and discussed the limits and...
Read moreWatch Dr. Noguera Give the Keynote at IASB Convention
Last November, Dr. Noguera gave the keynote speech at the 71st edition of the Iowa Association of School Boards Conference, an annual conference of school board members throughout Iowa. He spoke on proven ways to ensure excellence and equity for...
Read moreListen to Dr. Noguera’s Full Talk on “Equity and Deeper Learning” from the University of Washington
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 moreHow to Help All Kids Succeed?
On January 10th, Dr. Noguera will be a featured speaker in a series hosted by the Graduate School at the University of Washington. His lecture will focus on strategies that have proven effective in supporting and cultivating effective teaching in...
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 moreStar Student Felt Like A Fraud After Being Guest of First Lady
A sad story that illustrates the danger of proclaiming victory over beating the odds too quickly. This student wasn’t used, but he was not adequately prepared for college and didn’t realize it until he got there. We must do better...
Read moreAmerican Students of Color in Unequal Education Systems
“Our systemic failure to educate some groups of children as well as others tears at the moral fabric of the nation.” With evidence of racial disparities in the disciplining of children beginning in preschool, we can expect students of...
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...
Read moreThe Advantages of Bilingual Education
The many advantages of bilingual education should be obvious, but it hasn’t stopped some from opposing bilingual education. When a person is fluent in more than one language, they have many advantages such as effectively communicating with...
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