In a dataset of nearly 100 million traffic stops across the United States, researchers found that black drivers were about 20 percent more likely to be stopped than white drivers.
As we grapple with COVID-19, we at NYU Metro Center are deeply concerned that recent incidents of racism and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans threaten our collective public safety.
Occupational therapists (OTs) are providing critical services to patients recovering from COVID-19. Eager to thank their future peers, OT students formed a COVID “OuTreach” Team dedicated to spreading positivity throughout the profession.
We call for expansive educational practices to meet our individual and collective needs, which are always present but further exposed by this crisis. This means advocating for ourselves and others through an emphasis on radical care.
As the the nation is faced with the prospect of shifting education to remote techniques in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, NYU Metro Center curated a resource list for Culturally Responsive-Sustaining REMOTE Education.
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."
Communicative Sciences and Disorders alum Erin Dotzel's (MS '19) efforts are helping ensure that students have access to critical speech and language services at home during the pandemic.
From the 1970s to 2002, all the city’s schools including the alternative high schools operated within a partially decentralized citywide education governance structure.