News
- Metro Center's TACD staff publish a three-part article series with the National Center for Learning Disabilities
- Dr. Noguera challenges educators and others to recognize that "saving" black and Latino boys is an American problem, not just a problem for a portion of society in the February issue of Kappan.
- Metro Center schedules its Spring 2012 4-Part Learning Series for Teachers on "Culturally Responsive Education"
- Metro Center releases report on program evaluation of Rockect Learning - a supplemental education services
- Metro Hip-Hop education program, directed by Martha Diaz, releases a groundbreaking research on hip-hop education in late November 2011.
- Metro center is cited in a report issued by Cuyahoga County’s Office of Executive. The article reports on the collaboration between the executive Ed FitzGerald and staff from Metro center to improve educational outcomes for the most vulnerable children in Cuyahoga County.
- The editors of Invisible No More including our own experts, Dr. Pedro Noguera and Dr. Edward Fergus will participate in a book tour on Tuesday, November 22.
- View photos from the event here.
- Dr. Noguera presents his “broader and bolder" ideas about using education to lift children out of poverty in the November issue of Kappan.
- Metrocenter is cited in Education Week's on October 13, 2011, experts say improvements in school instructional cultures can keep some struggling minority kids out of special education.
- The Association of Curriculum and Development (ASCD) released a new study guide: Creating the Opportunity to learn by Professor A. Wade Boykin at Howard University and Professor Pedro Noguera at New York University.
- The NYS Language BETACs (ALBETAC and SBETAC) at New York University Metro Center are currently closed.
- Metro Center Schedules a 4-Part Learning Series for Teachers on "Culturally Responsive Education"
- Metro Center TACD Mounts Successful 2011 Summer Institute
- Spanish BETAC mounts its fifth successful annual NYS Spanish Spelling Bee. This initiative prompted a national replicating site this year.
- Current New York State language BETACs are scheduled for consolidation into the Regional Bilingual Education Resources Networks (R-BERNs). State-wide language services will continue through this program.
- Noguera and Wells publish an article on BBA in Berkeley Review of Education
- PS 198 in collaboration with Metro Center’s tutoring Programs schedules its annual Authors’ event at Barnes and Noble
- Metro Learning Communities announces Seminar in Facilitative Leadership, July 19-21
- Asian Languages Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center plans annual Chinese Painting Contest and Chinese & Korean Essay Contest Awards Ceremony for May 27
- Bilingual Technical Assistance Center housed at Metro Center to be Reorganized
- Upward Bound Mounts Successful Career Day
- Metro Center's BBA Newark Program (The Newark Global Village School Zone) convenes public meeting scheduled for March 8th.
- Pedro Noguera will serve as a panelist on PBS's Need to Know on February 11th, 2011. Need to Know will air a special education-themed edition. Noguera is joined by Dr. Susan Szachowicze, principal of Brockton High School in Massachusetts, and Zakiyah Ansari, parent leader with the Coalition for Education Justice.
- Metro Center cited as one of the key research centers for New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development in U.S. News.
- Upward Bound runs series of Financial Aid Workshops
- The Newark Education Trust has cited NYU Metro's initiative in the Newark Public Schools on its list as one of the "Top 11 for 2011"
- In an opinion article in THE Nation, Metro Center's Newark initiative, the Global Village Zone (NGVSZ) is cited as one of the "promising reform programs already operating." The NGVCZ implements a program /process to coordinate instruction, teacher coaching, and family social services in seven high-need neighborhood schools in the city's central ward.
- New York State Spanish BETAC located at Metro Center presented a two-part series on second language acquisition
- Metro Center Executive Director, Pedro Noguera, keynotes 2010 ASCD Fall Conference in Chicago
- Metro Center Executive Director, Pedro Noguera, pens Daily News op-ed piece titled "Accept it: Poverty hurts learning: Schools matter, but they're not all that matters"
- Broader, Bolder Approach Program receives funding from Victoria Foundation
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