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NYU Metro Center’s 2024 Equity Conference Is Honored To Have Dr. Gholdy Muhammad as Keynote Speaker
NYU Metro Center is proud to announce Curriculum Designer & award winning Author of Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad as the Keynote Speaker for the 2024 Equity Now: 70 Years After Brown Vs. Board Conference.
NYU Metro Center Welcomes New Subunit Team and Director to Improve Equity and Opportunity for Students with Disabilities
The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools embraces TAP for Equity, a new equity focused subunit, and recently named team Director, Briana Santiago Ravdin.
A Special Issue of NYU Metro Center's VUE Honors the Legacy and Impact of Norm Fruchter
The latest edition of NYU Metro Center’s open-access journal, VUE, shares the wide-ranging commentaries on urban education authored by the late education justice movement luminary, Norm Fruchter.
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“I Hate It Here”: How Minoritized Youth Perceive School and Social Belonging in Contested Racial Climates of Public Schools
Why do Black and Latinx students, and students of immigrant backgrounds report lesser feelings of acceptance and inclusion than their white peers? Dr. Sophia Rodriguez explores the experiences of youth of color and opportunities to create structural change in education policy.
“We’re all, like, one community”: Latinx youths’ sense of belonging in community-based organizations
What is the importance of social support and trusting relationships amongst youth of color? How do community and youth-based organizations foster connection and solidarity with Latinx youth? Dr. Sophia Rodriguez explores the barriers that attribute to lack on belonging that newly arrived Latinx youth experience.
“Disruptive Pupils” and “Forlorn Teachers”: How Educators Participated in the Expansion of Suspensions In NYC Schools
Teachers do not enter the profession to punish or exclude students. And yet numerous educators come to participate in racist and ineffective disciplinary practices. In the final blog post of this multi-part series, Dr. Rachel Lissy explores an often unspoken truth about school discipline policies.
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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