Education and Social Sciences

Grouping English learners in classrooms yields no benefit in reading development, new study finds

Research casts doubt on longtime academic practice of segregating students with limited English proficiency

In Checking Chess’s Gender Bias, Researchers Find Parents and Mentors Shortchange Girls’ Potential

NYU Researchers Map Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia at State Level

New Research Finds Way to Reduce Bias in Children

Bayard Rustin’s Blueprint for Activism—and Perhaps Progress

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NYU Researchers Among the World’s Most Cited

Twenty-two faculty recognized for publishing papers in top 1% by citations for their fields

Online Course Informs Urban Planners in the Global South, Where Cities Are Densifying and Expanding Rapidly

NYU Marron Institute provides municipal authorities with practical techniques for managing population growth amid climate change

How Social Work Researchers are Developing Culturally Specific Interventions to Assist Youth of Color in Despair

NYU Silver Dean Michael Lindsey and colleagues investigate suicide risk among Black and Latinx adolescents

Black women teaching science find formula for incorporating anti-racist practices, study finds

Through interviews and focus groups, Black women reveal ways they combine traditional science curricula and standards with lessons about race, gender, and class inequities

Violet Spotlight: Hazara Leon (Steinhardt '24)

A grad student who ‘lived her best life abroad’ pursues a career in international education.

Fighting Child Poverty, One Hard-Boiled Egg at a Time

School children’s nutritional status improved, as seen in changes in their height, weight, and body mass in less-developed villages in China, NYU study finds.

Grouping English learners in classrooms yields no benefit in reading development, new study finds

Research casts doubt on longtime academic practice of segregating students with limited English proficiency

In Checking Chess’s Gender Bias, Researchers Find Parents and Mentors Shortchange Girls’ Potential

Findings of NYU study, co-authored by former US Chess champion, show barriers girls and women face when it comes to perceived intellectual ability

NYU Researchers Map Anti-Asian Bias and Xenophobia at State Level

A study finds that Republican-majority and swing states showed indications of greater stereotyping of Asian-born and Asian Americans, with European Americans more likely to see them as foreign.

New Research Finds Way to Reduce Bias in Children

Psychology study shows that focus on structural origins of inequality can diminish biased views of others’ economic status