Engaging Communities in

Criminal Justice Solutions

Dr. Pedro Noguera - School to Prison Pipeline & Closing the Achievement Gap in Schools

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Q&A over lunch from 12 pm - 1pm)

Holiday Inn Select City Centre

515 South Street

Lafayette, IN

$25.00 (may include as a pre-session to the ECCJS Conference - details below)

Dr. Pedro Noguera, author, speaker, and professor at NYU, will discuss the school to prison pipeline - how do school discipline policies contribute to the criminalization of youth and what schools can do to maintain order and safety without adopting highly punitive policies, Drop out prevention - how to change school culture, improve relationships, and provide students with incentives to stay in school, and Closing the achievement gap - what we can learn from successful schools trying to close the achievement gap by creating conditions that promote learning.

Pre-Session