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ERIC Number: ED622084
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jun
Pages: 53
Abstractor: ERIC
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Double Punished: Locked out of Opportunity. How Education Policy Fails Students behind Bars
Beach, Paul; Robinson, Brian; Korman, Hailly T. N.; Koehler, Linea
Bellwether Education Partners
Today, and on any given day in the U.S., tens of thousands of students are attending school behind bars. Juvenile justice education fails many of these students, resulting in a double punishment for youth: the punitive experience of incarceration for their alleged offense and the potentially catastrophic disruptions of their educational pathway. This report reviews juvenile justice education policies in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. The authors focused their review on three related sets of policy tools that are crucial for improving outcomes for youth who are incarcerated: governance, accountability, and finance. While each of these policy tools creates opportunities for reform, designing all three to be mutually reinforcing has broader impact at the system level. However, the review of current state policies shows that there is much to improve. State policymakers are responsible for designing policies that allow high-quality education to flourish in juvenile facilities. To that end, the authors conclude the report by offering recommendations to state and local policymakers for leveraging governance, accountability, and finance to improve the quality of juvenile justice education. [This project received financial support from the Margulf Foundation.]
Bellwether Education Partners. e-mail: contactus@bellwethereducation.org; Web site: http://bellwethereducation.org
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Bellwether Education Partners
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Every Student Succeeds Act 2015; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act 1974
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