Grants & Awards
- 1997 Wellness Foundation Award for Research on Youth Violence
- 1997 University of California’s Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2001 Honorary Doctorate, University of San Francisco
- 2001 Centennial Medal, Philadelphia University
- 2003 Forward Magazine Gold Award (City Schools and the American Dream)
- 2003 AESA Critics Choice Book Award (City Schools and the American Dream)
- 2005 Whitney Young Award for Leadership in Education
- 2006 Eugene Carrothers Award for Public Service
- 2008 Schott Foundation Award for Research on Race and Gender
- 2008 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award (The Trouble With Black Boys)
- 2009 Scholastic Corporation Education Hero Award
- 2011 Honorary Doctorate, Bank Street College
- 2012 Honorary Doctorate, Metropolitan College of New York
- 2013 Honorary Doctorate Lewis and Clark College
- 2013 Kappa Delta Pi Laureate
- 2014 National Academy of Education
- 2014 Education Justice Award, Educational Law Center, Rutgers University
- 2014 Award for distinguished scholarship, Advanced Center for the Behavioral Sciences
- 2006: Whitney Young Award of Leadership in Education
- 2006: President, Caribbean Studies Association
- 2002: Centennial Medal, Philadelphia University
- 1995: Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley
- 1988: Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Fellowship
- 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the US, Hispanic Business Magazine
- Honorary Doctorate, University of San Francisco
- 2010: Honorary Doctorate, Bank Street College