NYU Metro Center Blog

Opportunity to Learn

Monitoring Educational Equity is so important because it’s the first time a respected national entity has called for efforts to pair the measurement of student outcomes with an assessment of the quality of learning schools and districts provide to students of differing race, class, gender, disability and language ability.

Redefining Infrastructure: Schools in a Care Economy

What is infrastructure and how should it be defined politically? This question is central to current debates about what infrastructure consists of and how it should be funded.

“I Felt Like I Never Fit in”: Increasing College Access and Persistence

In the past five decades the costs of college-going have skyrocketed, and student college-incurred debt has increased exponentially. Has the transition to college eased for first-generation students like Monica and our high school’s students of color?

Community Conversation

On May 6, 2020, NYU Metro Center welcomed a conversation on dis/ability justice that recognized the importance of race and power and acknowledged that the social constructions of both as products of white supremacy.

Historic Steps towards Funding Equity for NYC’s students

This July, New York City will receive an initial $1.4 billion down-payment on the accumulated debt the state owes the city’s schools, based on the New York State Court of Appeals 2006 final decision in CFE v State of New York

Bringing School Racial Socialization to Light: The Importance of Intentionality and Resistance

Racial socialization occurs with youth on a regular basis from all kinds of sources and these messages inform how youth make sense of race and their own racial identities.

Recuperation and Innovation: New York City’s Transfer High Schools

New York City's 56 transfer schools have a 25-year history and currently support the 15-20% of students who disengage from their original high schools. Yet, due to ESSA regulations, this sector of schools founded to serve students at high risk of not graduating is vulnerable to state regulatory action.

Reducing High School Segregation: What Can the Mayor Do? (pt.2)

This blog explores actions that have the ability to lessen the intense segregation of New York City high schools by examining the 50 least diverse high schools (highest percentages of Black and Latinx students) in the City and suggests ways to increase diversity in those schools and address their unique needs.

Reducing High School Segregation: What could the mayor do?

This blog explores actions that have the ability to lessen the intense segregation of New York City high schools by examining entry requirements of the 50 least diverse high schools in the City.

Monopolizing Whiteness

A reflection on Erika Wilson's forthcoming work that argues, across the country, state-drawn school district boundaries in diverse urban districts allow advantaged whites with significant social and political capital to transform those districts into enclaves of similar racial and socio-economic status.

A Short Guide to Practicing Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Family Engagement During Remote Learning

A brief exploration of culturally responsive and sustaining family engagement.

Rebuilding our City’s Safety Net: Early Childcare

Creating universal, free, high-quality early childcare for New York City’s young children should be an essential component of the city's safety net.

Perspectives 2020

Blogs from 2020: Read the blog posts from our thought-leaders: educators, students, and community members connected to NYU Metro Center.

Perspectives 2019

Blogs from 2019: Read the blog posts from our thought-leaders: educators, students, and community members connected to NYU Metro Center.

Perspectives 2018

Blogs from 2018: Read the blog posts from our thought-leaders: educators, students, and community members connected to NYU Metro Center.

Perspectives 2017

Blogs from 2017: Read the blog posts from our thought-leaders: educators, students, and community members connected to NYU Metro Center.

Perspectives 2016