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Article: Juvenile justice education, No Child Left Behind, and the National Collaboration Project.(Juvenile Justice News)
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- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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This article introduces the National Collaboration Project, a project intended to help states successfully implement the juvenile justice education requirements of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). Funded by Congress, the project recently was awarded to Florida State University's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. It focuses on developing and maintaining effective working partnerships among its staff, those responsible for juvenile justice education, the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) and the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE).
The project's initial task is to conduct a survey and assessment of each state's juvenile justice education system. The ...