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NDTAC Issue Brief: Supporting Student Achievement through Sound Behavior Management Practices in Schools and Juvenile Justice Facilities: A Spotlight on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)

September 2013
This brief provides an overview of the link between student behavior and traditional school discipline responses and how both affect academic achievement. The brief also highlights PBIS as one alternative behavior management approach demonstrating promise for public schools and institutional setting...

School Failure, Race, and Disability: Promoting Positive Outcomes, Decreasing Vulnerability for Involvement With the Juvenile Delinquency System

September 2013
This National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice brief examines school failure, disability, and ethnic minority status and how these factors place children and youth at risk for involvement with the juvenile or adult criminal justice system. ...

Advancement Project's Stop the Schoolhouse to Jailhouse Track

September 2013
Advancement Project is a civil rights law, policy, and communications “action tank” that advances universal opportunity. The Advancement Project’s Opportunity to Learn Program seeks to eliminate institutional barriers that exclude children of color and low income children from quality K-12 education...

Preventing Youth Delinquency: Identifying School Risk and Protective Factors

September 2013
Although a strong body of research on what makes a student at risk for delinquent behavior exists, few studies have examined the variables within schools that exacerbate or counteract these risks. The results of EDJJ's three multimethod studies suggest that school-level characteristics can help mini...

NDTAC Brief: Improving Conditions for Learning for Youth Who Are Neglected or Delinquent

September 2013
Learning is not just a cognitive process; research shows that powerful social and emotional factors affect learning. By providing students with support that addresses these needs and building positive social and emotional conditions for learning, staff in facilities and schools can help improve lear...

Mentoring Toolkit: Resources for Developing Programs for Incarcerated Youth

October 2013
Research has demonstrated that adolescents with at least one high-quality supportive relationship with an adult are twice as likely as other youth to be economically self-sufficient, have healthy family and social relationships, and be productively involved in their communities (Gambone, Klem, &...

NDTAC Practice Guide: Early Learning Is Essential: Addressing the Needs of Young Children Potentially at Risk for System Involvement

July 2014
NDTAC’s newest practice guide examines the principle that early learning is essential for children; it focuses on helping them avoid involvement in the juvenile justice and/or child welfare systems. These practices address the importance of early identification of children who may be vulnerable to i...

NDTAC Fact Sheet: Improving Services for Youth Who Are LGBT in Juvenile Justice Systems

October 2014
This fact sheet serves as a resource to enhance the capacity of State and local administrators and practitioners to improve policies and practices that promote the safe, inclusive treatment of youth who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) in juvenile justice systems. The document expl...

Correctional Education Guidance Package for Serving Juvenile Justice System-Involved Youth

December 2014
Secretary Arne Duncan and U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder have released a Correctional Education Guidance Package to help states and local agencies strengthen the quality of education services provided to America’s estimated 60,000 young people in confinement every day. This guidance ...

Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Settings

December 2014
This document, Guiding Principles for Providing High-Quality Education in Juvenile Justice Secure Care Settings, outlines five principles and supporting core activities to improve education practices or implement new ones. Authored jointly by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice, the guide ...

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