Louis Rosen School Justice Institute, Executive Director

Louis Rosen, is the executive director of the School Justice Institute, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the improvement of fair discipline practices in schools. He has been a high school principal in the Los Angeles area for 19 years and previously swerved as an assistant principal, a high school counselor, and a high school social studies teacher. He was the project director of the Drugs in the Schools and Principles and Practices of Justice on School Campuses programs for the Center for Civic Education. He also served as the executive director of Partners of Education more than 2,000 tutors and $2 million in resources for the public and Catholic schools through partnerships with businesses and labor unions. He is the author of School Discipline (Corwin Press, 2005) and several journal articles that have appeared in the The High School Journal, a publication of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, and School Safety, published by the National School Safety Center. He was the principal writer of two student texts, Drugs in the Schools and Violence in the Schools, published by the Center for Civic Education. He has served as an academic specialist for the United States Information Agency and initiated a special program on school justice issues for Arab and Jewish principals in Israel. He has a bachelor's degree in history from The University of California, a master's degree in secondary school administration from California State University Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in education from Claremont Graduate University.