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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.

NYU Metro Center’s 2025 Equity Now Conference Issues Call for Proposals

The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools is proud to announce that the Call for Submissions for the 2025 Equity Now Conference is officially open. The window for conference submissions proposals will close on Friday, November 22nd, at 11:59 p.m. EST.

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.

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 Researchers Present National Study Findings at Conference Hosted by the Institute for Educational Leadership

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) at NYU Metro Center leads workshop and shares new parent resource at the 2024 National Community Schools & Family Engagement (CSxFE) Conference.

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.

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 Awarded Inaugural Vision Grant from the Spencer Foundation

NYU Metro Center partners with two fellow NYU-based Institutes and Centers for collaborative research project to address the impact of trauma on educational outcomes for marginalized youth.

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) at NYU Metro Center Examines the Design of Equity Focused Summer Learning Programs

How do school districts design high-quality, equity-centered Summer Learning Programs? The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) analyzes how summer learning programs support young people, particularly those from historically marginalized communities.

NYU Metro Center’s 2024 Equity Conference Is Honored To Have Dr. Gholdy Muhammad as Keynote Speaker

NYU Metro Center is proud to announce Curriculum Designer & award winning Author of Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad as the Keynote Speaker for the 2024 Equity Now: 70 Years After Brown Vs. Board Conference.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Subunit Team and Director to Improve Equity and Opportunity for Students with Disabilities

The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools embraces TAP for Equity, a new equity focused subunit, and recently named team Director, Briana Santiago Ravdin.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Deputy Executive Director of Research and Evaluation

The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools proudly introduces its first-ever Deputy Executive Director of Research and Evaluation, Dr. Leigh S. McCallen.

Registration Opens For NYU Metro Center's 2024 Equity Conference

NYU Metro Center invites educators, caregivers, youth, and community organizers to engage sustainable district and school-based equity practices at Equity Now: 70 Years After Brown vs. Board, a day-long Equity Conference.

ASD Nest Support Team Embarks on the 2023-2024 Academic Year and Salutes 20 Years of the ASD Nest Program

Learn how the ASD Nest program has – and will – support Autistic learners in their communities.

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.

NYU Metro Center Announces the Formation of Its New Youth Development and College and Career Readiness Unit

How can we ensure that students maintain a strong academic standing and are prepared for the next stages of their lives? NYU Metro Center’s New Youth Development and College and Career Readiness (YDCCR) unit offers a holistic approach to student academic achievement and career development.

A Special Edition of NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (VUE) Focuses on Queer and Trans Youth Resistance Within Oppressive Systems

VUE, NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, examines queer and trans resistance to epistemic, political, and social control within educational systems, as well as what strategies may be necessary to subvert the structures that exclude and censure them.

The Liberty Partnerships Program at NYU Metro Center Empowers and Inspires Student Artists with Public Photo Exhibition

NYC High School students are inspired to become more conscious of both their surroundings and their own perspectives. The Liberty Partnerships Program at NYU Metro Center empowers student art through digital photography.

NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (VUE) Hosts Student Art Contest for Fall 2023 Issue

NYU Metro Center’s Voices In Urban Education (VUE) is thrilled to announce the call for artists for an upcoming special edition of the open-access journal, focusing on the legacy and impact of Norm Fruchter.

The Impact of NYC Department of Education’s New "Reading Mandate" on Children, Especially Those From Vulnerable and Historically Marginalized Communities

What harm is inflicted upon traditionally marginalized students when they are made to engage a curriculum that is not culturally responsive? This article examines the implementation of NYCDOE’s new “Reading Mandate”, and the conundrum that results from Black, Brown, Indigenous, & LGBTQ students engaging in a culturally destructive curriculum.

NYU Metro Center Confronts Anti-Equity Efforts Exacerbating Inequality And Harm

As anti-equity efforts sweep across the country, it is not uncommon to be accosted by a host of bans, restrictions, and laws that exacerbate inequality and harm. NYU Metro Center remains committed to standing with the members of vulnerable and historically marginalized communities.

NYU Metro Center Commemorates Its 45 Year History with Prioritizing Equity Conference and Opening Reception

NYU Metro Center’s year-long celebration of its 45th anniversary continues with the 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference and Opening Reception

Prioritizing Equity Conference: Past, Present, & Future

NYU Metro Center’s 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference focuses on creating an inclusive educational system that invites all of our children to achieve their best possible academic, socioemotional, and cultural development.

Recognizing the Impact of Student Voice Featured in VUE Volume 51 Issue 1

The latest edition of NYU Metro Center's Voices in Urban Education prominently features the student voice in a number of poignant ways, including both as author and artist.

NYU Metro Center’s 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference Names Dr. Pedro Noguera as Keynote Speaker

NYU Metro Center is proud to announce Dr. Pedro Noguera as the Keynote Speaker for the 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference.

NYU Metro Center’s New Edition of Voices in Urban Education (VUE) Challenges Us to Resist the “Colonized” Academy and Instead Center the Experiences of Historically Marginalized Communities

VUE, NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, interrogates the need for a “post-pandemic” pedagogy that is culturally centered around the perspectives of the disenfranchised, and new understandings of community care and educational justice.

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation at NYU Metro Center Continues work on WK Kellogg Foundation Grant, Hosting Conversation on Parent-Led Racial Equity Movements

Why do parent leaders engage in racial equity work? Researchers from the Center for Policy, Evaluation, Research, and Evaluation engage parent leadership organizations to share its impact on their families, schools, and community.

Turning Policy into Practice: NYU Metro Center Collaborates with NYC DOE’s Office of Equity and Access to Incorporate CRSE into Professional Practice for Fall 2023

NYU Metro Center partners with NYC Schools Office of Equity and Access to grow CRSE mindset and practices for school and district teams for Fall 2023

New Equity Resource Text Penned By NYU Metro Center Staff and Alum Garners Rave Reviews and Praise from Educators & Social Justice Advocates

New book authored by NYU Metro Center Staff and Alum receives admirable review from Teachers College Record & educators across the country.

NYU Metro Center’s 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference: Past, Present, and Future Announces its Initial Conference Workshop Agendas

Check out the Interactive, informative, and equity-focused workshops announced for NYU Metro Center’s 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference taking place June 2nd. Register now.

NYU Metro Center and NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Teaching and Learning host Black Lives Matter at School: Week of Action-Curriculum and Resource Fair

NYU Metro Center and NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Teaching and Learning celebrate art, literature, youth voice, and professional learning amongst educators at Black Lives Matter at School: Week of Action-Curriculum and Resource Fair.

NYU Metro Center’s Voices in Urban Education (VUE) issues A Call for Artists for New Publication Exploring the Resilience of Queer, Trans, and other 2SLGBTQIA+ Communities

NYU Metro Center’s Voices In Urban Education (VUE) is thrilled to announce the call for artists for an upcoming edition of the open-access journal, focusing on the strength and resistance of Queer, Trans, and other 2SLGBTQIA+ adults, youth, and allies.

NYU Metro Center Partners with the NYC Department of Education to Conduct Two Separate, But Equally Impactful Professional Learning Series

Experts from NYU Metro Center coach NYCDOE educators and school leaders to better implement concepts of critical consciousness and CRSE to improve equity and student outcomes.

The ASD Nest Support Project at NYU Metro Center Commends the NYC Schools Chancellor’s Pledge to Expand Use of the ASD Nest Model in NYC Classrooms

The ASD Nest Support Project at NYU Metro Center embraces the DOE’s commitment to inclusive settings for Autistic learners and the further expansion of ASD Nest Model

NYU Metro Center’s 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference: Past, Present, & Future Issues Call for Proposals

NYU Metro Center invites you to submit proposals for the 2023 Prioritizing Equity Conference (PEC), which will focus on decolonizing education, wellness and sustainability in leading equity efforts, in addition to equity-based practices that districts and schools have developed and sustained.

Join the VUE Editorial Team

We are launching a search for a lead editorial team for Voices in Urban Education (VUE), including an Editor-in-Chief and one or two Deputy Editor(s). Open to education scholars at two- or four-year institutions.

Statement in Memory of Norman Fruchter, Longtime Public School Advocate and NYU Metro Center Senior Consultant

NYU Metro Center mourns the death of our beloved friend and colleague Norm Fruchter. Norm was an intellectual and visionary writer, researcher, and public education activist. Our deepest condolences go out to his surviving family members, loved ones, and the countless community members influenced by his brilliance.

VUE Doctoral Student Editorial Fellowship

Voices in Urban Education (VUE), NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal is launching an editorial fellowship for doctoral students to be mentored and advised in the process of academic publishing.

New Book Written by NYU Metro Center Staffers and Alum, Dismantling Disproportionality: A Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Systems Approach, Named as High-Quality Equity Resource

New book written by NYU Metro Center staffers and alum named as high-quality equity resource for offering framework to center underserved communities in racial equity work.

NYU Metro Center Releases Analysis Revealing Lack of Racial Diversity in Common Elementary ELA Reading Lists

A recent study conducted by NYU Metro Center’s Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) found the ELA curriculum for elementary school students fails to reflect the diversity within the public school student population.

NYU Metro Center Launches the Real Integration Hub

This interactive hub is meant to preserve and archive the tools, resources, and policies achieved in the fight for integrated schools over the past 8 years, but to also situate the work to integrate NYC schools, in the long battle for racial justice in New York City.

Path Program Named in NYC DOE Chancellor's Plan to Improve Special Education Programs

DOE School’s Chancellor David Banks has pledged to make a $205 million dollar investment to expand several programs for students with disabilities, including autism, intensive sensory needs, and emotional disabilities. One of the valued programs that will be expanded is the “Path” program.

Creating Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Out-of-School Time Programs: Recommendations for Youth Serving Adults

NYU Metro Center collaborates with leading Youth Engagement Programs to host a wide-ranging discussion on how community-based organizations can create culturally responsive and sustaining Out-of-School-Time Programs.

Lessons in (In)Equity: An Evaluation of Cultural Responsiveness in Elementary ELA Curriculum

EJ-ROC conducted a culturally responsive evaluation of three widely used elementary school English Language Arts curriculum and found them to be demeaning and damaging to Black, indigenous and students of color.

NYU Metro Center’s ASD Nest Support Project fosters Pathways for Neurodivergent and Autistic NYC DOE Students to amplify their Voices

The ASD Nest Support Project at NYU Metro Center partners with a non-profit organization to empower children and teens to make their voices heard through collaborative songwriting.

NYU Metro Center Brings Diverse Stakeholders Together to Publish Our Latest Issue of Voices in Urban Education

NYU Metro Center publishes an open-access journal, Voices in Urban Education (VUE). Volume 50 Issue II, entitled Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (Part II): Toward Agency, Abolition, and Freedom.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Senior Equity Associate

NYU Metro Center is pleased to announce Dr. Andolyn Brown as the new Senior Equity Associate

NYU Metro Center Announces New Deputy Executive Director of School Change and Community Engagement Programs

NYU Metro Center is pleased to announce Dr. María G. Hernández as the new Deputy Director of School Change and Community Engagement Programs

NYU Metro Center Announces New Director of Innovations in Equity and Systemic Change

NYU Metro Center is pleased to announce Reed Swier as the new Co-Director of Innovations in Equity and Systemic Change.

Prioritizing Equity in our Schools as the World “Returns to Normal”

NYU Metro Center hosts a discussion on the importance of Equity and Culturally Responsive & Sustaining Practices in School Settings

NYU Metro Center Partners with Trust for Learning to Host Early Childhood Education Discussion

NYU Metro Center partnered with Trust for Learning, a philanthropic partnership dedicated to expanding ideal learning environments for underserved children, to host a wide-ranging discussion of Early Childhood Education.

Statement on the 2022 Buffalo Shooting Massacre

NYU Metro Center grieves for the precious lives lost in the racist massacre in Buffalo on May 14th. Our deepest condolences go out to the surviving family members and loved ones of the ten Black Buffalo residents executed by a self-proclaimed white supremacist.

NYU Steinhardt Award Nominations

Congratulations to our administrations, staff, and researchers at Metro Center who have been recognized for their years of service and significant contributions to NYU Metro Center and the Steinhardt community.

NYU Metro Center Provides NASA Internship Experience for Autistic Young Adults

The ASD Nest Support Project recently partnered with Sonoma St. University to provide professional development aimed at supporting Autistic young adults during their summer internship experience with NASA.

NYU Metro Center ASD Nest Celebrates Autism Acceptance Month

In honor of Autism Acceptance Month, the ASD Nest Support Project led a social media campaign in order to elevate the true experts, autistic individuals.

News from College Prep Academy/1199 Workforce

Providing guidance and resources to assist students and their families to work together in successfully navigating the changes and challenges ahead.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Director of the Center for Strategic Solutions

NYU Metro Center is pleased to introduce Wenimo Okoya, the new director of our Center for Strategic Solutions (CSS).

NYU Metro Center Represents at CUNY Neurodiversity Conference

ASD Nest Support Project team members Alexis Betancourt-Hart, Lauren Melissa Ellzey, and Molly Perez presented at the CUNY Neurodiversity Conference on Friday, March 18th.

Black Autistic Lives Matter

In honor of Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action, the ASD Nest Support Project created a social media campaign to elevate Black Autistic Lives and affirm that Black Autistic Lives not only matter, but are central to our work as educators and therapists.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes Dr. Fabienne Doucet as Executive Director

We are excited to introduce our new Executive Director, Dr. Fabienne Doucet, who succeeds Dr. David E. Kirkland’s seven-year tenure of leadership at NYU Metro Center.

PACH Receives Research Grant to Fund: The Listening Project, A Whole-School Approach

The Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH) at the Metropolitan Center for
Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools has received a project grant of $750,000 from the
Silicon Valley Community Foundation to continue their work with The Listening Project (LP) in schools
across New York City.

NYU Metro Center Staff Quoted in Critical Race Theory Article

i3 director Matt Gonzales and EJROC project associate Barbara Gross quoted in a recent article about critical race theory.

Culturally Responsive Curriculum Fellowship to Launch

In September, NYU Metro Center's EJ-ROC will be launching the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Fellowship.

NYU Metro Center’s Center for Policy, Research and Evaluation Received a $600,000 Reducing Inequality Award

The William T. Grant Foundation has awarded the NYU Metro Center’s Center for Policy, Research and Evaluation a $600,000 Reducing Inequality award. Given the inequitable representation among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in teaching and educational leadership roles, we will explore how a community-based civic leadership initiative for parents/caregivers and their children can disrupt power inequities to influence educational systems and institutions.

Organizing Family and Community: Collective Parent Action and Intergenerational Learning

This project, funded by the Spencer Foundation, explores how children learn and thrive when their parents and family members belong to parent leadership and organizing groups.

ASD Nest Support Project Provide Training Aimed at Supporting Autistic Young Adults

The ASD Nest Support Project recently partnered with the NY Hall of Science (NYHS) to provide training aimed at supporting autistic young adults during their summer internship experience with The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

SPENCER FOUNDATION GRANT

NYU Metro Center Wins $1 million Spencer Foundation Grant to Study the Benefits of Parent Organizing for Children

VUE Student Art Competition

We invite interested students to submit their art to be considered for our Voices in Urban Education (VUE) CR-SE Pt. 2 issue!

NYSABE 2021 Virtual Annual Conference

This virtual conference, focusing on Fostering Collaborative Instructional Leadership in Bilingual Education: Equity in Action, will be held on May 20-22, 2021. Pre-conference events will take place on May 15-19, 2021.

NYU Metro Center Represented on the New York State Board of Regents Advisory Council on Postsecondary Education

Ron Woo, Executive Director NYS Language RBERN, at Metro Center, has been invited to serve on the New York State Board of Regents Advisory Council on Postsecondary Education for Students with Disabilities.

CRE STEAM Scorecard Release

NYU Metro Center is excited to announce the launch of the Culturally Responsive-Sustaining STEAM Curriculum Scorecard!

NYU Metro Center Faculty Affiliate Publishes Book about Racial Equity in the Digital Age

In their book, Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education, NYU Metro Center faculty affiliate Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz and co-author Detra Price-Dennis provide theoretical and practical entry points into a conversation about race in the digital age.

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New ASD Nest Director

NYU Metro Center welcomes Allison Brown as the new Executive Director of the NYU ASD Nest Support Project. Alison has been a Director of our Middle School and High School services and has been with the project from early on.

NYU Metro Center is Proud to Partner with the UN for Annual Conference

The Mindful Education Lab will be working with the United Nations to produce an annual conference called Education for An Unknowable Future

NYU Metro Center Team Members Win Prestigious Fellowships

The Monroe Stein Award and Adrian Levy Award were awarded to two members of NYU Metro Center’s Mindful Education Lab, Michelle Duverge and Katie Acomora, respectively, for their dedication to bettering the lives of children.

NYU Metro Center Faculty Affiliate Ranked Most Influential Policy Scholar

NYU Metro Center’s Joshua Aronson named one of the nation’s most influential education scholars in the Nation for his work in investigating stereotype threat and how social and psychological influence academic achievement.

$215K to Support Anti-racism and Educational Justice Awarded to NYU Metro Center

The Hewlett Foundation awarded the NYU Metro Center’s Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC) a grant of $175K grant to provide educational equity data, policy and research support, and strategic assistance to education justice organizing groups and coalitions.

Celebrating New Partnerships

NYU Metro Center's School Transformation subunits–Center for Strategic (CSS) and Innovations in Equity and Systemic Change (IESC)–have continued to build their relationships with several districts within and beyond New York State.

Metro Center Wins W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant for Racial Equity Work Among Parent Leadership Organizations

Metro Center awarded $500,000 from the Kellogg Foundation to form a Racial Equity Peer Learning and Inquiry Community with four parent leadership organizations.

NYU Metro Center wins Bill & Melinda Gates Grant for CRSE research

We are very pleased to be awarded a new study grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to be used to study the interconnected relationships of culturally responsive-sustaining education (CRSE), racial identity formation, and student academic success.

EduColor Partnership

NYU Metro Center is proud to announce our new partnership with EduColor.

Virtual Book Launch Success

NYU Metro Center's Parent Leadership Indicators Project hosted a virtual book launch on March 12 for "A Ripple Effect in Action: What 7 Parent Leadership Organizations Learned from Participatory Evaluation."

NYU Metro Center Celebrates Sixteen Years of ASD Nest Support Project

The ASD Nest Support Project has launched it's sixteenth year in New York City! In the coming school year, the program will be reaching 1,500 Nest students, who will be learning alongside 5,000 general education peers.