The Capshaw-Speilberg Center for Educational Justice
The Capshaw-Spielberg Center for Educational Justice (CSCEJ) is a program of New Visions. Located at the Herb Alpert Educational Village, the program will foster partnerships among non-profit organizations and New Roads School to promote educational innovation. Through incubating and communicating educational ideas, program partners will promote social justice, environmental sustainability, and the arts so that youth, and especially at-risk youth, can have access to an excellent education.
The goal of the Capshaw-Spielberg Center for Educational Justice program is to expand the dialogue in educational reform focusing on issues of equity and justice. To this end, it will host conferences and workshops dealing with the needs of and potential solutions for foster children and youth, incarcerated and recently released juveniles, and children and youth in high poverty communities.
The program’s main concern will be to not only identify underlying causes of inequities but to design, propagate and, wherever possible, implement solutions. We believe that the key ingredient for all at-risk children and youth is hope; providing possibilities and implementing progress can supply such hope.
New Visions is in the process of recruiting non-profit partners who will reside at the Herb Alpert Educational Village. Specifically, New Visions is seeking participants interested in working collaboratively to develop innovative programs for application in the broader education community – programs that will promote social justice, environmental sustainability, and the arts, so that youth and especially at-risk youth can have access to an excellent education.