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HLS Advocates for Education Conference
Closing the School to Prison Pipeline: Redirecting our Future
Welcome to the First Annual Advocates for Education Conference! We believe the school-to-prison pipeline is one of the most pressing issues in education, and in child advocacy in general. We will take a multidisciplinary approach to discussing this complex problem and exploring potential solutions.
Professor James Forman Jr. of Yale Law School will be the keynote speaker.
Other panelists include The Honorable Jay Blitzman, Middlesex Juvenile Court; Dr. Frank DiCataldo, Roger Williams University; Mark Fancher, Racial Justice Project of the Michigan ACLU; Alana Greer, Advancement Project; Dr. Tim Lisante, New York City Department of Education;Daniel Losen, UCLA Civil Rights Project; Dr. Laura McNeal, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute; Dr. Jennifer Murphy, Massachusetts General Hospital's Children and the Law Program; Lisa Thurau, Strategies for Youth; Alice Wolf, Massachusetts State Representative; Dr. Maisha Winn, Emory University; and more!
The conference includes lunch with panelists and plenty of opportunities to interact with our speakers.
Schedule for the Day:
10:00-10:20 Registration
10:30-11:45 Failing Our Students: Perspectives on
Education and the School to Prison Pipeline
12:00-1:00 Keynote Speech by Professor James Forman Jr. -- The School to Prison Pipeline: Complicated Causes, Promising Solutions
with Introduction by Dean Martha Minow
1:00-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:00 Hidden Issues: Perspectives on
Gender, Sexuality and the School to Prison Pipeline;
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Guarding Young Minds: Perspectives on
Mental Health and the School to Prison Pipeline
3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
3:15-4:30 Students Behind Bars: Perspectives on
Juvenile Justice and the School to Prison Pipeline
4:45-5:45 Debate and Discussion:
Devising Multidisciplinary Solutions to the Pipeline Problem
6:00-7:00 Reception
The conference is sponsored and funded by the Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Fund.
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LocationHarvard Law School, Wasserstein Building, Milstein East (View)
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
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