The federal government’s attempts to bring consistency and standards to public education across the country have often clashed with the reality facing educators trying to meet those standards. The challenge is even greater for those working with teens locked behind bars or struggling to deal with years of physical and emotional trauma.
A conference sponsored by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in Washington in mid-June provided a forum for a lively — at times testy — debate over juvenile justice provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act, the latest government plan to improve outcomes and increase accountability at the state level.
[For more of this story, written by John Holland, go to http://jjie.org/2017/06/26/juv...tudent-succeeds-act/]
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