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The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the very real and dangerous problems of educational inequity in this country — and it has exacerbated them. Nowhere

Amidst the COVID pandemic, the racial justice reckoning in our hearts and in our streets, and the increasingly toxic rhetoric of the 2020 elections, many

In this episode Christina Sorenson, 2019 Soros Justice Fellow at the Juvenile Law Center shares how she has turned the pain from growing up in

As the U.S. Senate continues its mad dash to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett for a life term on the United States Supreme Court, not

A new report found students in the juvenile justice system often don’t get credit for their school work and end up falling behind and in

Art by Emmanuel Ignatius Bwibo

Efrén Pare­des Jr.’s life out­side prison was over before he was old enough for a driver’s license.

With no crim­i­nal record, 15-year-old Pare­des

A new report puts some weight behind arguments that young adults should not be prosecuted in adult court in Illinois.

The findings from the Juvenile

Steven “Speedy” Yates was separated from his mother when he was a 5½-year-old and placed into Philadelphia’s foster care system. The traumatic experience caused him

Youth advocates share two projects entitled Road Map to Reform, focused on broad system reform for juvenile justice and child welfare systems

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