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
Metro Center Hosts Equity Now: 70 Years of Brown vs. Board Conference
NYU Steinhardt’s Metro Center hosted the Equity Now Conference exactly 70 years to the day since the momentous Brown vs. Board decision.
NYU Metro Center Team Members Are Honored at Steinhardt Recognition Event
NYU Metro Center extends a heartfelt thank you and well-deserved congratulations to those staff members that were nominated for special honors and awards during a recent NYU Steinhardt Recognition Event.
A Special Issue of NYU Metro Center's VUE Honors the Legacy and Impact of Norm Fruchter
The latest edition of NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, VUE, shares the wide-ranging commentaries on urban education authored by the late education justice movement luminary, Norm Fruchter.
Events
Metro Center Perspectives
“I Hate It Here”: How Minoritized Youth Perceive School and Social Belonging in Contested Racial Climates of Public Schools
Why do Black and Latinx students, and students of immigrant backgrounds report lesser feelings of acceptance and inclusion than their white peers? Dr. Sophia Rodriguez explores the experiences of youth of color and opportunities to create structural change in education policy.
Eclipsing ‘Reduce-Reuse-Recycle’: Having More Honest Conversations with Ourselves and Our Young People | Part 2
How do we have difficult conversations about the state of the Earth's climate with young children? In this blog post, Shana Viglieger directs adults to honor their children with the truth, and afford them opportunities to make critical, regenerative changes to the environment.
“We’re all, like, one community”: Latinx youths’ sense of belonging in community-based organizations
What is the importance of social support and trusting relationships amongst youth of color? How do community and youth-based organizations foster connection and solidarity with Latinx youth? Dr. Sophia Rodriguez explores the barriers that attribute to lack on belonging that newly arrived Latinx youth experience.
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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