NYU Steinhardt News

NYU Metro Center's Deputy Director Chaired SEF Public Policy Forum

January 08, 2019

Metro's Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) Director Richard Gray, recently participated at a Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Public Policy Forum, The Politics of Equity: Navigating a Path for Public Education.

NYU Metro Center's College Prep Intern Publishes New Article

January 08, 2019

A Metro Center College Prep Academy (CPA) former intern, Jonathan (Mahari) Simmonds, has published a new article, "Education Behind Bars: Can Young People Be Taught in Adult Justice System?".

The Social Justice Storyteller: An Interview with Teacher Meghan Crosby (MA ’18)

December 20, 2018

A graduate of Steinhardt’s educational theatre program, Meghan Crosby brings the art of social justice storytelling to school children in New York City.

NYU Steinhardt Teacher Residency Continues to Expand Partnerships with NYC Charter School Summit

December 05, 2018

Leadership representatives from 10 New York City charter school organizations gathered last month to learn more about partnering with NYU Steinhardt as part of its innovative model for teacher prep, the Teacher Residency master of arts in teaching (MAT) program.

Areas of Study: Education

What We Are Learning: Causal Inference; Statistical Methods for Program Evaluation and Policy Research

December 03, 2018

Professor Jennifer Hill's course, Causal Inference, focuses on answering questions that take the form of ‘Did A cause B?” Those questions could range from figuring out whether a drug can cure cancer to understanding whether a Facebook post can change your political beliefs.

NYU Metro Center Continues Listening Project

November 20, 2018

Metro's Project for the Advancement of Our Common Humanity (PACH) kicks off their second year of the Listening Project with University Neighborhood Middle School.

NYU Metro Center Receives Major Grant

November 20, 2018

Metro's Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) Director Richard Gray recently recieved a Hewlett Foundation Grant for COE component, the Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJ-ROC).

NYU Metro Center Welcomes New LPP Program Coordinator

November 20, 2018

Metro's Liberty Partnerships Program has welcomed a new Program Coordinator, Ms. Jasrin Jalal. Jasrin is a former NYU LPP tutor who graduated with a Masters in Counseling for Mental Health and Wellness from NYU, Steinhardt.

NYU Metro Center Releases CRE Film Series

November 20, 2018

Metro's Center for Strategic Solutions (CSS) and Center for Community Organizing and Engagement (COE) partnered with Filmmaker Manauvaskar Kublall to produce a Culturally Responsive Education (CRE) film series.

NYU Metro Center Features International Autism Activist

November 13, 2018

Metro's ASD Nest Support Team recently hosted Eustacia Cutler at NYU's Kimmel Center. Ms. Cutler is an internationally recognized autism activist and the mother of Temple Grandin, an American professor of animal science at...

NYU Metro Center's College Planning Workshops Yield Positive Results

November 13, 2018

Metro's College Preparatory Academy (CPA), functions on the premise that persistent parental involvement is crucial to the academic and personal success of students.

Lifting As You Climb: An Interview with Jemar Bather (MS ’18), Applied Statistics

November 12, 2018

Jemar Bather is a biostatistics doctoral student and a HIV/AIDS Training Grant Fellow at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. After earning a master’s degree from NYU Steinhardt’s Program in Applied Statistics for Social Science Research, he served as a research assistant in the Department of Biostatistics at the NYU College of Global Public Health, where he built statistical models to address health disparities in breast cancer, obesity, health literacy, and patient decision-making.

Areas of Study: Education