The Right to a Quality Education for Children and Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Juvenile Justice: Advancing Research, Policy, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 286-309

  Boundy, Kathleen B ^a   Karger, Joanne ^a  

^a Center for Eye Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

Correctional education; Delinquency; IDEA; Quality education; School to prison pipeline; Title I part D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885990362     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118093375.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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