Providing policy analysis, data, and technical assistance for grassroots efforts to win quality public schools in low-income communities and communities of color.

"These are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become."

James Baldwin

NCSC Caught in the Financial Meltdown

The National Center for Schools and Communities is going out of service. Thanks to the financial meltdown, we had two major projects cancelled by "partners" who depend heavily on corporate funding. We might have survived losing one of the projects; two left us with a hole in the budget that goes beyond temporary cash flow problems.The center has served as one of Fordham’s bridges into the communities of New York City and, more broadly into urban centers across the United States. We have focused on issues of equity in public education and the provision of high quality, frequently school-based, child- and youth-development programming.

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The Technology of Mobilization Computer Mediated Communication and Youth Organizing in the Bronx

By: An Action Research Partnership of Sistas and Brothas United NWBCCC and National Center for Schools and Communities at Fordham University [2009] Communication technology is the sixth sense of 21st Century plugged--in youth activists. Our latest report, underwritten by the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC), provides an initial down payment on a much needed discussion of the role tech in student organizing. Download file (PRRACDraft421.doc - 167.42Kb)

The Technology of Mobilization Tech Survey Results

By: An Action Research Partnership of Sistas and Brothas United NWBCCC and National Center for Schools and Communities at Fordham University [2009] Download file (TechnologySurveySummaryNotesupdated.doc - 44.76Kb)