Our Objective
The NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (NYU Metro Center) is a comprehensive, university-based center providing research, professional learning services and supporting equity-focused, evidence-based innovations in educational research and programming. NYU Metro Center’s commitment to educational equity and school transformation, brings together scholars, educators, and innovators from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on projects to improve educational access and opportunity. NYU Metro Center focuses on driving equity in school settings--especially when confronting issues of race, gender, gender identity, national origin, socioeconomic status, and other identities historically marginalized in educational spaces.
Our Impact
Years
Of Community-Facing Research to Practice Partnerships in 2023 and 2024
Education Leaders
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2023 and 2024
Teachers
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2023 and 2024
Parents
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2023 and 2024
Students
Students Directly Served by NYU Metro Center’s Student-Facing Programs and Partnerships in 2023 and 2024
Presentations and Trainings
to Local, Statewide, National, and International Conferences, Summits, and Convenings in 2023-2024.
Our Commitment
NYU Metro Center is committed to providing assistance and mobilizing resources to address educational inequity, segregation, disproportionality, discrimination, and social injustice. NYU Metro Center’s work falls into five categories: 1) scholarly research conducted by in-house researchers and faculty affiliates; 2) technical assistance to districts and schools; 3) professional learning programs for teachers and leaders; 4) applied research and evaluation of district and school, and community-based programs; and 5) youth development programs.
What's Happening at NYU Metro Center
NYU Metro Center Partners with Nationally Renowned College-In-Prison Program to Publish a Special Edition of Their Urban Education Journal
The latest edition of NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, Voices in Urban Education (VUE), explores the complex and often contradictory terrain of abolitionist practice within and beyond college-in-prison programs.
NYU Metro Center is Deeply Honored to Have Dr. Bettina L. Love as Keynote Speaker for 2026 Equity Now Conference
NYU Metro Center is proud to announce the William F. Russell Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, Dr. Bettina L. Love, as the keynote speaker for its 2026 Equity Now Conference: A Call to Action—Reframing Equity Through Culturally Responsive Systems.
New Campaign Illustrates the Power of Youth and Career Development Achieved by the Liberty Partnerships Program at NYU Metro Center
NYU LPP’s “Everyday People, Everyday Heroes” Initiative highlights their upcoming Empire Youth Summit and the importance of college and career readiness.
Events
Metro Center Perspectives
Culturally Responsive Scorecards as a Catalyst for Powerful Conversations
NYU Metro Center's forthcoming report, "Conversations that Shift the Ground", explores outcomes associated with using English Language Arts (ELA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecards created by our own Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) team. In this blog post, researcher Dr. Leah Q. Peoples outlines the findings of this study, including the power of participatory research tools, and how culturally responsive curriculum advances the creation of welcoming and affirming schools.
“A Rose By Any Other Name”: Doing the Work When You Can’t Say the Work
In this blog post NYU Metro Center’s Dr. Crystal Martin encourages educators fighting for social justice not to be limited by “banned words” or restrictive systems, but rather to demonstrate the resilience that freedom dreaming requires.
The Contradictions and Intersections Between Education and Incarceration
As guest editors of the latest issue of NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (VUE), titled "Abolitionist Praxis and Education Across Prison Walls," the New York University Prison Education Program (NYU PEP) team shares their collective thoughts about the contradictions and intersections between education and incarceration.
Voices in Urban Education
VUE is an open-access journal published twice annually and endeavors to serve as a “roundtable-in-print” by bringing together diverse education stakeholders with a wide range of viewpoints, including leading education writers and thinkers, as well as essential but frequently underrepresented voices in educational scholarship, such as students, parents, teachers, activists, and community members.
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