Our Objective
The NYU Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (NYU Metro Center) is a comprehensive, university-based center providing research, professional learning services and supporting equity-focused, evidence-based innovations in educational research and programming. NYU Metro Center’s commitment to educational equity and school transformation, brings together scholars, educators, and innovators from diverse backgrounds to collaborate on projects to improve educational access and opportunity. NYU Metro Center focuses on driving equity in school settings--especially when confronting issues of race, gender, gender identity, national origin, socioeconomic status, and other identities historically marginalized in educational spaces.
Our Impact
Years
Of Community-Facing Research to Practice Partnerships in 2022 and 2023
Education Leaders
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023
Teachers
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023
Parents
Supported by NYU Metro Center in 2022 and 2023
Students
Students Directly Served by NYU Metro Center’s Student-Facing Programs and Partnerships in 2022 and 2023
Presentations and Trainings
to Local, Statewide, National, and International Conferences, Summits, and Convenings
Our Commitment
NYU Metro Center is committed to providing assistance and mobilizing resources to address educational inequity, segregation, disproportionality, discrimination, and social injustice. NYU Metro Center’s work falls into five categories: 1) scholarly research conducted by in-house researchers and faculty affiliates; 2) technical assistance to districts and schools; 3) professional learning programs for teachers and leaders; 4) applied research and evaluation of district and school, and community-based programs; and 5) youth development programs.
What's Happening at NYU Metro Center
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 Students Find Empowerment Lobbying Politicians in the State Capitol
NYC High School students with the Liberty Partnerships Program (NYU LPP) meet with state legislators to share their diverse perspectives and advocate for the continuation of Opportunity Program funding in the New York State budget.
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.
Events
Metro Center Perspectives
Shaping Futures with Words: Toward More Explicitly Antiracist Discourse in NAEYC’s Developmentally Appropriate Practice and Family-School Partnerships Guidelines
What are the policy and practice implications for changes to National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)’s key Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP) texts? In this blog post study authors make the case for explicitly anti-racist reciprocal partnerships with families and communities within the DAP texts, to facilitate greater equity and social justice in educational practices.
From Belonging to Becoming: A Blog Post Series on Memory, Institutions, and Freedom Dreams (Part 1)
How do we create spaces where everyone not only feels they matter and belong—but also where their cultures are actively centered, and not just passively included? In this blog post, Dr. Crystal Martin, Senior Equity Associate with the Institute for Healing and Belonging in Schools at NYU Metro Center, explores her earliest memories of “belonging” for relevant insights on how to transform education.
Healing Our Communities from Harm: The Importance of Centering Joy and Liberation in Schools
How do we build communities that nourish and uplift Black children? In this blog post Dr. Wenimo Okoya of the Institute for Healing and Belonging in Schools (IHBS) at NYU Metro Center, illustrates the disproportionate harm caused by ongoing crises upon communities of color, and the significance of creating Welcoming, Healing and Affirming Schools for all of our children.
Voices in Urban Education
VUE is an open-access journal published twice annually and endeavors to serve as a “roundtable-in-print” by bringing together diverse education stakeholders with a wide range of viewpoints, including leading education writers and thinkers, as well as essential but frequently underrepresented voices in educational scholarship, such as students, parents, teachers, activists, and community members.
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