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Pedro Noguera's new book

Broad Based Advisory Committee

Jossey-Bass has released a new book by Pedro Noguera, The Trouble With Black Boys: And Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education.

Pedro Noguera, Executive Director of Metro Center, announced members of an advisory board to the Black and Latino Male Study, "Is Male Alright?": An Intervention Study of Single Sex Schools for Black and Latino Males.

NEWS/ANNOUNCEMENTS

>Metro Center's TACD Summer Institute 2008

>The Metro Center Tutoring Program Conducts 3rd Annual "Road to College" Conference

>The Metropolitan Center congratulates the staff members who participated in the May 14th 2008 commencement celebration.

>Metro Center's APEX Scholars Program participate in the "APEX Goes to College Trip"

>Metropolitan Center for Urban Education has released a tool that supports school districts in monitoring their own special education disproportionality. Funded by the NY State Education department, the Data Analysis Workbook provides step-by-step procedures for school districts to develop their own capacity to measure disproportionality.
[download the Data Analysis Workbook]

>Public Schools vs. Private Schools: New Study Says There Is No Difference

>2008 Emerging Scholars in Urban Education Conference

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PROGRAM NOTES

>Metro Center's EAC disseminates article on Black History Month

> Metro Center’s NYS SBETAC accomplished their goals including Technical Assistance, Professional Development, Parent Education and Involvement, and Special Events through the activities provided during 2006-2007. The NYS SBETAC engaged or worked with 1,700+ educators of LEP/ELL students in grades K-16, 600 school administrators, 580 LEP/ELL Spanish-speaking students in grades 4-6, 300+ young adults in NYC DOE District 79 locations, and 1,300+ parents of LEP/ELL students.

>The Liberty Partnership Program provided tutoring, college counseling, guidance, and mentoring for 223 students during the 06-07 school year at Brooklyn Academy High School. Forty-eight (48) students graduated; 10% have been accepted at State of New York Universities (SUNY), 50% at City of New York University (CUNY), and the remainder has been accepted at independent colleges ranging from Marymount Manhattan in New York City to Bard in Annandale-on-Hudson in New York. One student will be attending the famed culinary school, Le Cordon Bleu, in Atlanta, Georgia.

>The Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD) provided professional development for over 1700 teachers, staff and other professionals in 2006-2007 statewide in New York City, Long Island, Albany and Westchester County, Cheektowaga and Utica.

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Conference and Workshop Presentations by Metro Center staff