Nearly 50,000 young people are in juvenile jails across the country, where educational options are often minimal. The juvenile detention center in New Orleans was no different — until a new group of educators took over, with a different approach. Watch their efforts to transform a place once known for violence and incompetence into a school that inspires kids to dream of college.

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Video: Inside a jail school trying to treat kids like scholars not criminals

by Alden Nusser and Emrys Eller, The Hechinger Report
March 13, 2017

<h1>Video: Inside a jail school trying to treat kids like scholars not criminals</h1> <p class="byline">by Alden Nusser and Emrys Eller, The Hechinger Report <br />March 13, 2017</p> <p>Nearly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/corrections/qa08201.asp?qaDate=2014">50,000 young people</a>&nbsp;are in juvenile jails across the country, where educational options are often minimal.&nbsp;The juvenile detention center in New Orleans was no different — until a new group of educators took over,&nbsp;with a different approach. Watch their efforts to transform a place once known for violence and incompetence into a school that inspires kids to dream of college.</p> <figure></figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/video-inside-jail-school-trying-treat-kids-like-scholars-not-criminals/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org&quot;&gt;The Hechinger Report&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon.jpg?fit=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://hechingerreport.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=32450&amp;amp;ga4=G-03KPHXDF3H&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://hechingerreport.org/video-inside-jail-school-trying-treat-kids-like-scholars-not-criminals/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hechingerreport.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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