Urban Culture, Underserved Populations, and Community College Pedagogy in the 21st Century
Spring 2007
Urban sociologist, Dr. Pedro Noguera, Professor in the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and Co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). Dr. Noguera is the author of Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools (2006) ; Beyond Resistance: Youth Civic Engagement and Social Change ( 2006) ; and City Schools and the American Dream: Reclaiming the Promise of Public Education (2003).
"Teaching the 1st Generation:
The Role of Community Colleges
In Creating Pathways to the Middle Class"
