About
The goal of Education on the Line is intend to go behind the headlines and offer insights and analysis to help education leaders, school board members and advocates traverse the current perilous education landscape.
Louis Freedberg, Host & Producer
Louis Freedberg is a veteran education reporter and media innovator. He led EdSource, the leading source of education reporting in California, as executive director until 2021. He was the founding director of California Watch at the Center for Investigative Reporting. He spent 15 years at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was an award-winning education reporter, Washington correspondent, columnist, and member of the editorial board. He was the founder of Youth News, one of the first youth media projects in the U.S. A John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, he has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in child development from Yale University.He worked in the schools for several years working with students in special education, focusing on autistic children, and was a founder of the Henry Street Project of The Growing Mind School, a school for adolescents on the margins of the public school system in Berkeley, California, where he led a mainstreaming program to integrate those students into the public school system shortly after the passage of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Pedro Noguera, Advisor & Guest Host
Pedro A. Noguera is the Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education. A renowned sociologist, and compelling public speaker, Noguera’s research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions, as well as by demographic trends in local, regional and global contexts. His most recent books are Common Schooling: Conversations About the Tough Questions and Complex Issues Confronting K-12 Education in the United States Today (Teachers College Press) which was the winner of the Association of American Publishers 2022 Prose Award, with Rick Hess, and City Schools and the American Dream: Still Pursuing the Dream (Teachers College Press, 2001) with Esa Syeed. He has been a faculty member at UC Berkeley, Harvard, NYU, and UCLA. He has also served public school students as a high school teacher and school board member. In 2020 Noguera was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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He is the author, co-author and editor of 13 books. His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brownwith Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015).
Pedro has published over 250 research articles in academic journals, book chapters in edited volumes, research reports and editorials in major newspapers. He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project and The Nation. Noguera appears as a regular commentator on educational issues on several national media outlets, and his editorials on educational issues have appeared in TheNew York Times, TheWashington Post, TheWall Street Journal, TheDallas Morning News and Los Angeles Times.
Prior to being appointed Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, Noguera served as a Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003) and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000).
Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. He also advises the state departments of education in Washington, Oregon and Nevada. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. In 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Education and Phi Delta Kappa honor society, and in 2020 Noguera was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Noguera has received seven honorary doctorates from American universities, and he recently received awards from the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, from the National Association of Secondary School Principals and from the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at NYU for his research and advocacy efforts aimed at fighting poverty.