ANNOUNCEMENT/NEWS
>2008 Emerging Scholars in Urban Education Conference
>Modeled on the successful Upward Bound format headed by Patricia Ryan, Stefan McLetchie, Director of School Services announced the launching of APEX.
>Pedro Noguera, along with John Powell, William L. Taylor, Wendy D. Puriefoy, and Richard D. Kahlenberg, offer comments on proposal to make K-12 schools more diverse in the latest issue of Poverty & Race.
>Noguera and Fergus included in New Teachers Press Publication
>Margary Martin, Senior Researcher in Metro Center’s Research Evaluation and Policy Center has been invited to participate in an invitational conference in Germany in Mid-February.
>Metro Center announces several staff changes.The Technical Assistance Center on Disproportionality (TACD) has added four new project associates to its staff including Roey Ahram, Chemay Morales-James, Keisha Oxford, and Nicholas Handville. Charlotte Gray, project associate at TACD will now serve as the lead in coordinating the project.
>Marguerite Lukes of the NYS Spanish BETAC at Metro Center collaborated with local community-based Plazas Comunitarias partners to share information on the educational needs of Spanish-speaking adult immigrants in New York State. This video, prepared by undergraduates in the Gallatin School at NYU, provides background information, statistics and testimonials of students enrolled in the Plaza Comunitaria run by the community-based UVEA (Volunteers for Adult Education).
>Dr. Pedro A. Noguera, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, announced that the USDOE has awarded the Center a new contract for its Upward Bound Program.
>On October 24th, New York University's Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and School of Law present Race, Desegregation, and the Promise of Equity: A Colloquium on the Supreme Court Case Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District Et Al. Click here to watch the event
>The Leadership Program at New York University Metro Center seeks a former principal to serve as a mentor to middle school and high school principals and assistant principals.
>Dr. LaRuth Gray, Metro's Deputy Director, has been appointed to the Westchester County Fair Campaign Practices Committee.
>Dr. Pedro Noguera’s recent published article "Race, Student Achievement and the Power and Limitations of Teaching".
>Marian Mensah, Metro Center Budget Assistant, receives her BA in Social Science-Econimics Concentration
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