Tag: Pedro Noguera

  • Nation & World

    Heading for Congress

    Twenty-four incoming members of Congress visited the Harvard Kennedy School this week for a four-day conference to help prepare them for their new jobs.

    4–6 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Surveying students to understand school reform

    Since the fall of 2001, Pedro Noguera, who is the Judith K. Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools at the Graduate School of Education, and a team of research assistants have been interviewing 10th-graders in 10 Boston Public Schools and gathering their insights on which practices are effective and which are not. “So much of…

    1–2 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    What students know best

    A research project called Pathways for Student Success has taken a unique approach to finding ways to help high school students achieve at a high rate. Rather than focusing on conclusions established by researchers, high school students themselves bore the responsibility of defining academic, demographic, and social factors that challenge their ultimate levels of achievement…

    1–2 minutes