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Education Inside the Juvenile Justice System: Leveraging Data, Research, and Evidence to Drive Improvement in a System Under Tension

Sat, April 13, 11:25am to 12:55pm, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Floor: Level 100, Room 117

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Incarcerated youth attending schools behind bars are caught between two social policy systems. Education systems, even in carceral setings, are charged with improving young people’s trajectories. Simultaneously, the juvenile justice system and the broader policy context in which it is embedded erects barriers to delivering high-quality services to the nation’s most marginalized, and overwhelmingly racialized, students.

Blending didactic and dialogic formats, this symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, state agency representatives, and evaluators to discuss how the nation, and one state in particular, use data and research to 1) identify the features of a cohesive juvenile justice education system; 2) understand the impact of local policy reforms on youth outcomes; 3) continuously improve on educational initiatives on the ground.

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