NYU Steinhardt's Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools (Metro Center) provides resources such as the Culturally Responsive Curriculum Scorecard, designed to help parents, teachers, students, and community members determine the extent to which their schools’ English Language Arts curricula are (or are not) culturally responsive.

Using these scorecards, Metro Center’s Education Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative (EJROC) team evaluated three of the nation’s most widely used elementary school English Language Arts curricula, which collectively reach millions of students across the country. The recent report found that all three curricula contain texts, language, tone, and guidance that communicate harmful messages to students of all backgrounds, especially Black, Indigenous, students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and students with disabilities.

Since the release of the original Scorecard, it has been used by schools, districts, and community organizations in at least 30 states, Canada, and England, and downloaded more than 20,000 times. It also inspired the creation of a companion scorecard for STEAM: science, technology, engineering, arts, and/or mathematics.

NYU Steinhardt's Research Alliance for New York City Schools released a new research brief highlighting starkly different experiences with neighborhood policing across racial/ethnic groups – and providing evidence that these inequities contribute to well-documented gaps in high school graduation rates for NYC’s Black and Latinx students.

Recent increases in violent crime, in New York and other major cities, have led to concerns about public safety and call for more intensive law enforcement. However, the new findings suggest a worrying link between heavy policing and poor outcomes for young people who live in those areas. 

The Washington Post reviewed Steinhardt's Verbatim Performance Lab showcase, Whatever You Are, Be a Good One: A Portraits US Town Hall, which examines the country’s extreme political polarization through the words of real Americans.

CBS News featured Teaching and Learning alum Billy Green (MA ’11), a Harlem high school chemistry teacher, who was named the 2023 New York State Teacher of the Year.

The New York Times wrote about the work of Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies Fabio Parasecoli, who is co-curator of the Museum of the City of New York’s Food in New York: Bigger Than the Plate exhibit.

Working Nation cited Chair of Teaching and Learning and Director of Teacher Education Diana Turk and Teaching and Learning alum Clint Brown (MA ’22) in an article about the value of teacher residency programs. 

The New York Times featured James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication Nicole R. Fleetwood’s Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, a prison arts initiative that aims to empower incarcerated artists and amplify the cultural significance of their work while working to transform the criminal legal system.

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