Executive Director Jim Kemple spoke at a meeting of the NYC Racial Justice Commission on Friday, July 23, 2021. The meeting focused on eradicating education inequity and featured a range of panelists, including NYC Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter and David Kirkland, Executive Director of NYU Steinhardt’s Metro Center, among others. The Commission’s goal is to “identify and propose structural changes and significant policy reforms that will advance racial justice and equity and begin to dismantle structural racism for all New Yorkers."

Read more about Dr. Kemple’s presentation.

New Issue of Voices in Urban Education Explores the Potential of CR-SE in Computer Science Education

Deputy Director Cheri Fancsali, Research Associate Kathy Hill, and colleague Zitsi Mirakhur are featured in the 50th Volume of Voices in Urban Education (VUE). Their interview with Ron Summers and Christy Crawford, leaders in New York City’s CS4All initiative, examines the close connection between equity and computer science (CS), and Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education (CR-SE). Their conversation provides insights into how initiative leaders understand and are enacting CR-SE practices as they work to bring computer science education to the City's 1.1 million students.

Read The Potential of CR-SE for K-12 Computer Science Education.

This issue of VUE spotlights the CR-SE framework, emphasizing a “view of learning and human development in which multiple expressions of diversity (e.g., race, social class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, ability) are recognized and regarded as assets.”