by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera
A. Wade Boykin is a professor and director of the graduate program in the Department of Psychology at Howard University. He is also the executive director of the Capstone Institute at Howard University, formally known as the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR). Dr. Boykin has done extensive work in the area of research methodology; the interface of culture, context, motivation, and cognition; Black child development; and academic achievement in the American social context. He is coeditor of Research Directions of Black Psychologists, which was a finalist for the American Psychological Association's Book of the Year.
Boykin has served as a fellow at the Institute for Comparative Human Development; as an adjunct associate professor at the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Rockefeller University; as codirector of the Task Force on the Relevance of the Social Sciences to the Black Experience, Yale University; as a member of the American Psychological Association Task Force on Educational Disparities; as a Research Advisory Panel member for the National Minority Student Achievement Network; as a member of the Board of Directors for Project Grad USA, a national school reform organization; on the editorial board of the Sage Publications Book Series on Race, Ethnicity and Culture; and on the President's National Mathematics Advisory Panel, which advises the president of the United States and the secretary of education with respect to the conduct, evaluation, and effective use of the results of research relating to proven, evidence-based mathematics instruction in order to foster greater knowledge of, and improved performance in, mathematics among American students.
Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. He holds tenured faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development and in the Department of Sociology at New York University. He is also the executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the codirector of the Institute for the Study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS).
Noguera is the author of The Imperatives of Power: Political Change and the Social Basis of Regime Support in Grenada, City Schools and the American Dream, Unfinished Business: Closing the Achievement Gap in Our Nation's Schools, and City Kids, City Teachers with Bill Ayers and Greg Michie. His most recent book is The Trouble with Black Boys…and Other Reflections on Race, Equity and the Future of Public Education. Noguera has also appeared as a regular commentator on educational issues on CNN, National Public Radio, and other national news outlets.
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