Educating Incarcerated Youth: Practice, Research, Policy, and Advocacy

Harvard HGSE

*Lottery-Based Enrollment* Our nation’s youth who are incarcerated are arguably our most disenfranchised population. They are disproportionately children of color, children with special needs, children living in poverty, and children who identify as LGBTQIA+ or non-conforming. Many of them dropped out – or were forced out of school and funneled through the school-to-prison pipeline. Each year, more than 450,000 cases are heard throughout our nation’s juvenile…