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- TACD partners with NYSED to bring you 2013 Summer Institute: Guardians of Equity: Creating Fair Systems to Achieve Equitable Outcomes.
- NYU's Metro Hip-Hop Education Center announces the 2013 Higher Learning series at the Schomburg Center. This series looks at the ways educators are using hip-hop culture to engage and teach K-12 students in classrooms and the community.
- Dr. Noguera, Metro's Executive Director, partners with the American Reading Company in a series of symposia on Educating Boys of Color | Striving for Educational Equity.
- Metro Center Executive Council Member Cassie Schwerner announces Schott Foundation significant new report: America's Education System Neglects Almost Half of the Nation's Black and Latino Male Students.
- Martha Diaz, Director of Metro's Hip Hop Center, announced an upcoming 2012 Higher Learning Series with the first panel occurring this Thursday. Click to view artwork and panel.
- The Center for Professional Development (CPD) directed by Susan Fein has begun a series of trainings on the Common Core standards at the Norman Thomas High School in New York City. The goal is to assist teachers and leadership of the school to integrate Common Core standards in reading and writing across content areas.
- Metro's Executive Noguera and Deputy Fergus featured in Under Fire Documentary Film on July 17th in Steinhardt
- Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies seeks Director of Culture and Character
- Metro’s partner, Metro Learning Communities launches Facilitative Leadership Seminar sessions.
- Metro center Upward Bound program will participate in the National Disability Day (DMD) announced by Mayor Bloomberg.
- Dr.Pedro Noguera, is one of the seven members named to panel tasked with examining achievement gap. National Education Association Foundation (NEA) announced on May 22th.
- Hope Foundation series, How Schools Work will feature Metro Executive Director Dr.Pedro Noguera as a key speaker at its New York City event October 12, 2012.
- Dr. Pedro Noguera, one of the conveners of the national Broader Bolder Approach (BBA), announced today an education policy event sponsored by the Campaign for Educational Equity (CEE) and BBA. The event is scheduled for March 27 at Salome Urena de Henriquez Campus. More.
- Metro Center’s Liberty Partnership Program and The Boy’s club of New York co-sponsor Latino College Expo on Saturday, March 17, 2012. More
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- Noguera featured in South African newspaper, The Herald, posits an opinion on South Africa's progress towards a non-racial society.
- RBE-RN launches a successful conference on October 13, 2012: “Equity and Biliteracy: A Paradigm for Academic Success.”
- Dr. Pedro Noguera, Metro's Executive Director, joins Deborah Meier as a co-blogger on Education Week's blog: Bridging Differences.
- Dr.Noguera's commentary on Chicago Teacher's strike on CNN and in "The Nation" produce spirited feed back.
- Dr. Martha Diaz, Director of Metro's Hip Hop Center, announced today a new lecture series, "Getting Real 111: Hip-Hop Pedagogy, Perfomance, and Culture In The Classroom and Beyond." The series is a collection of the Hip Hop Education center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, NYU's Metro Center and The Institute for Urban and Minority Education.
- Metro’s Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD) Summer Institute Highlighted in Gotham Schools Press: Educators look for help making the most of cultural differences
- Dr.Pedro Noguera published an article on CNN:Confronting challenges of American education, 'civil rights issue' of our time
- Dr.Pedro Noguera published an article on the NY Times Room: Draw Out Diversity with Union Offerings.
- Pedro Noguera and John Jackson, Schott Foundation, post an Op-Ed article: Why education inequality persists — and how to fix it on Washington post on May 15th
- Nellie B. Mulkay, Director NYS Language RBE-RN at New York University, reports on the new California bilingual initiative
- Dr. Noguera presents an inspiring keynote speech in BASo ALTo, Latino College Expo 2012 at NYU Kimmel Center
- Metro center learning communities are hosting Coach Certification Training on March 26th, March 28th, May 16th, May 31st and June 28th
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- Dr. Edward Fergus, Deputy Director of Metro Center, is a panelist on the Common Core State Standards: Its Impact on African American Students reactionary panel for the upcoming White House Round Table Discussions with Mr. David Johns, Executive Director of The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African American Students. This event takes place on April 25th in Chicago.
- Wen-Tsui Pat Lo joins NYSED State-wide Language (RBE-RN) center as a Resource Specialist. Pat Lo directed the Asian Language Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center (ALBETAC). This center supported English language learners (ELLs) from Asian language backgrounds and students learning an Asian language as a foreign language. The center was merged into RBE-RN in 2010. She then completed her tenure at the New York City Department of Education. The 25-year veteran educator and two-time Teacher of the Year nominee, has served in various teaching and administrative positions. She is also an adjunct lecturer in the methods of teaching Chinese and bilingual education at Hunter College and City College of City University of New York (CUNY) and serves as a language consultant to National Foreign Language Center STARTALK Programs and the College Board Chinese Language Initiative.
- Dr. Noguera announced today that Steinhardt faculty member Josh Aronson has joined the Metro Center as a Research Faculty member of the Metro Staff.
- Dr. Edward Fergus, Deputy Director of Metro Center has been appointed to the School Climate Advisory Committee of the Council of State Goverments’ School Discipline Consensus Project. The council is comprised of national, state, and local experts and opinion leaders in education, school safety, health and human services, juvenile justice and law enforcement. The work of the committee includes developing recommendations for policy makers seeking to minimize the dependence on suspension and explusion to manage student behavior, improve students' academic outcomes, reduce their involvement in the juvenile justice system, and promote safe and productive learning environments.
- Alan Ripp, Project Director of The Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionailty (TACD) announced today that Christina L.Hale has joined the TACD staff. Hale, a graduate of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, hails from California.
- Dr. Edward Fergus is a featured presenter (Creating Protective Schools for Vulnerable Populations: A Broader and Bolder Reform) at Association for Supervision Curriculum and Development (ASCD)'s annual conference on October 25th.
- Dr. Gail Slater will present a workshop at the Association for Supervisionn Curriculum and Development (ASCD)'s annual conference in Atlanta, GA on October 25th.
- Dr. Nellie Mulkay will present on September 24th and 25th at a symposium in Washington D.C. sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Professor Pedro Noguera's Articles and Videos
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Metro’s work featured at AERA’s annual conference. The Metro Center will send its largest delegation ever to present findings on its work. The center’s work focuses on educational research, policy, and practice. The papers presented will address issues of disproportionality, student engagement, special education, school discipline, and community organizing. Metro Center’s presenters and papers include...click here to read more.
In responding to questions generated for Steinhardt’s At A Glance, Professor Noguera outlines thoughts for a Broader Bolder Approach to the New York City schools. Steinhardt posed these questions in light of Noguera’s moderation of a panel of mayoral candidates at a symposium, “The State of Education: A Conversation with NYC’s Next Mayor.”
NYU Steinhardt Hosts Summer Institute on Boosting Teacher Cultural Responsiveness in the Classroom, July 6
VIDEO: Alan Ripp, director, Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD), on the importance of boosting teachers' understanding of race, ethnicity, and culture in the classroom.
View Metro Center's Summer Institute 2012 Gallery
The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education proudly announces the workshops for the 2012 Summer Institute being held on July 6, 2012 at Kimmel Center at NYU. Please download our conference brochure. Click here to view picture gallery of the event.
NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Urban Education (Metro Center) has been granted a two million six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars ($2625000) award to mount a new technical assistant center. The Center, directed by Nellie Mulkay, will provide technical assistance, professional development, and will disseminate information to support and strengthen the teaching and learning of Native and English language acquisition of LEP/ELLs. As part of a NYS bilingual educational resource network, the focus is to promote high academic achievement for LEP/ELLs from various target languages and cultural backgrounds.
The work for the NYS Statewide Language Regional Bilingual Educational Resource Network (RBERN) is supervised and guided by both the New York State Education Department Office of Bilingual Education and Foreign Language Studies and the New York City Department of Education Office of English Language Learners.