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NYU Metro Center Receives Major Grant

Metro's Center for Policy, Research and Evaluation (PRE) recently received a Research Collaborative grant from Jobs for the Future to conduct a Culturally Responsive Mastery-Based Education Research Project (CR-MBE).

NYU Metro Center Sponsors the Learning and the Brain Conference

Metro's Mindful Education Lab will be a proud sponsor of the forthcoming Learning and The Brain Conference, Schooling Social Brains: Promoting Social Skills, Interactions, and Collaborations in a Digital Age.

Metro's MEL Sponsors the Learning and The Brain Conference

Metro's Mindful Education Lab will be a proud sponsor of the forthcoming Learning and The Brain Conference, Schooling Social Brains: Promoting Social Skills, Interactions, and Collaborations in a Digital Age.

Award-Winning Book Offers Cultural History of Color TV

In her book Bright Signals: A History of Color Television (Duke University Press), MCC Associate Professor Susan Murray positions the story of color television within a broader cultural history of twentieth-century aesthetics. In tracing the development and commercial introduction of the technology, she considers the way the idea of color was debated, theorized, and monetized.
Areas of Study: Media Studies

A Love of Crushed Pigment and Hard Work: Eric Dever (MA ’88) on His Artistic Process

Eric Dever (MA ’88) is a painter who graduated from NYU Steinhardt’s studio art program.

His paintings are part of notable public collections at the Parrish Art Museum, Grey Art Gallery-New York University Art Collection, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York, and Centre d’Art et de Culture, Saint Just de Bellengard, France.
Areas of Study: The Arts

Research Alliance on the Passing of Steering Committee Member Luis Garden Acosta

The Research Alliance is greatly indebted to Mr. Acosta’s unique perspective, intellect, and contributions to our research agenda. His insights and joyful spirit will be greatly missed by the Research Alliance.

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NYU Metro Center's Liberty Partnership Program Continues

Metro Center's Liberty Partnerships Program has been housed within Metro since its first award in 1995. LPP provides comprehensive services designed to meet the academic, psychological, social & other developmental needs....

NYU Metro Center Responds to Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting

New York, NY—Yesterday, the first of eleven people killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, PA was put to rest. Unfortunately, the fear of violence and irrational hatred remains.