Looking for national resources at the intersection of juvenile justice and education? Check out these organizations.
Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings
Special expertise: educational reform in community settings and locked facilities.
The Center for Law and Education (CLE)
CLE strives to make the right of all students to quality education a reality and to help enable communities to address their own education problems effectively, with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students.
Correctional Education Association
CEA has provided leadership, direction, and services to correctional educators and institutional correctional education programs around the world. CEA has also been the only professional advocacy group for juvenile justice and adult correctional education to the private sector, political organizations, and social agencies in the United States.
Education Development Center, Inc.
The Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) is a center that is dedicated to implementing research, evaluation, and advancement of opportunities that promote a better well-being, education, and economical situation for the society. EDC employs professionals and leaders that are researchers, professors, and many other different careers so that their center is diverse and enriched in different intelligences from many sectors.
National Association of State Boards of Education
The National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) is a nonprofit organization that has a membership base of previous school teachers and administrators, and parents, whose main goal is for the improvement of the nation’s State Boards of Education. They collect their information from original reports that cover state educational issues that reflect educational policy.
National Dropout Prevention Center
Seeks to increase graduation rates for youth in high school, while also increasing the use of research and solutions that are backed up with evidence.
National Education Association
The National Education Association (NEA) is the largest professional organization that seeks for the improvement of the public education system. NEA believes that every student in the public school system, regardless of what grade, gender, race, disability, should have an equal opportunity at getting the best out of the public school system.
National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent or At Risk
The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk (NDTAC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Education and seeks to provide the very best information on educational opportunities and resources for those children who are at risk. They especially focus on the educational needs of children who are in the juvenile justice system.
The National Institute for Urban School Improvement
The National Institute for Urban School Improvement (NIUSI) develops reliable networks for youth who live or go to school in urban districts that are data-based. Additionally, NIUSI generates research that is inclusive to urban schools and areas and how they affect youth.
National Resource Center on School-Justice Partnerships
The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention has launched this website to provide information on training and technical assistance to help school-justice partnerships realize positive school discipline reforms and reduce the school-to-juvenile justice pathway.
National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges
Report on the Evaluation of Judicially Led Responses to Eliminate School Pathways to the Juvenile Justice System