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Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools

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 2022 and 2023

Education Leaders

Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023

Teachers

Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023

Parents

Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023

Students

Students Directly Served by NYU Metro Center’s Student-Facing Programs and Partnerships in 2022 and 2023

Presentations and Trainings

to Local, Statewide, National, and International Conferences, Summits, and Convenings

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

A Special Issue of NYU Metro Center's VUE Illustrates the Importance of Cultivating Cultural Sustainment for Students of Color in STEM and Computing Education

The latest edition of NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, Voices in Urban Education (VUE), highlights the importance of bringing love, community, and joy to the center of learning experiences to support a diversity of youth to flourish.

NYU Metro Center is Deeply Honored to Have Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings as Keynote Speaker

The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools is proud to announce Professor Emerita and former Kellner Family Distinguished Professor in Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Dr. Gloria Ladson-BIllings, as the keynote speaker for its 2025 Equity Now Conference: Welcoming, Affirming, and Healing Schools.

Art Exhibit Showcases Talent and Youth Development of Students Belonging to NYU Metro Center’s Liberty Partnerships Program (NYU LPP)

NYC High School students are encouraged to share their talents and perspectives at a public-facing art installation held at NYU's Kimball Hall. The Liberty Partnerships Program at NYU Metro Center empowers students to be active participants in their learning communities and beyond.

Events

Fall 2024 Facilitative Leadership Seminar

How can you facilitate more effective and inclusive meetings? Metro Learning Communities’ Facilitative Leadership Seminar instructs participants to master protocols for strategic planning, data analysis, curriculum development...

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Facing Race Conference

Facing Race is a multiracial, intergenerational racial justice conference. This event calls upon community organizers, activists, and movement-makers converge to build power and strategies to advance racial justice.

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NYU Metro Center Presents: A Salon with Shamari Reid and Wenimo Okoya on Teaching with Humanity

Please join us for NYU Metro Center's Inaugural Conversations in Education webinar on Monday, November 25th from 5:00-6:30pm.

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Understanding the Root Cause Analysis Process

This webinar is an application webinar that offers the essential components to conduct a root cause analysis including the processes, and application tools districts can take to effectively address their disproportionality.

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Leveraging Student Voice in Addressing Disproportionality

This webinar provides a framework, process, and tools on how districts and schools can build student voice to address disproportionality.

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Public School Strong February Orientation

Are you concerned about the rising tide of book-bans and attacks on students of color, LGBTQ students and teachers that are harming our kids, our public schools and our country’s future?

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2025 Equity Now Conference

The 2025 Equity Now Conference: Welcoming, Affirming, and Healing Schools, will showcase practical tools, and research-backed strategies and practices, and policies for creating sustainable, equity-focused spaces.

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Metro Center Perspectives

Authentic CRSE: Tackling Beliefs through Self to System Reflection and Action

Why is having a self to system reflection practice critical to addressing disproportionality? This blog post centers the mindsets and practices needed to support education practitioners to engage both theory and practice, in the effort to enact positive change within schooling systems.

Teaching about the Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience and Mass Protest in the 1960’s (Part 2)

What can we learn from the Free Speech Movement (FSM)? Why should we commemorate FSM? In part one of this blog post series, Dr. Robert Cohen explores how this student rebellion helped define the 1960s as an era of unprecedented student protest in the United States. And underscores the significance of teaching about FSM today.

Fostering Culturally Responsive Districts and Schools: Understanding the Root Cause Analysis Process

How can teams in districts and schools leverage a root cause analysis to take action on their disproportionality? In this blog post, authors the of Dismantling Disproportionality in Practice offers the essential components to conduct a root cause analysis including the processes, and application tools districts can take to effectively address their disproportionality.

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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