Pedro Noguera is a professor of education at UCLA. His most recent books are Excellence Through Equity (Corwin 2015), co-edited with Alan Blankstein, and Schooling for Resilience: Improving the Life Trajectories of African American and Latino Boys (Harvard Education Press 2014) with Eddie Fergus and Margary Martin.
Charters were supposed to be laboratories for innovation. Instead, they are stunningly opaque.
Lecturing black men isn’t going to help them overcome the barriers they face. Better jobs and education policies will.
As Obama touts his education reforms and neoliberals face off with teachers, hardly anyone is talking about the real problems besetting America’s public schools.
As Obama touts his education reforms and neoliberals face off with teachers, hardly anyone is talking about the real problems besetting America’s public schools.