Sponsors

National Middle School Association serves as a voice for professionals, parents, and others interested in the educational and developmental needs of youths ages 10 to 15. As our mission states, we are dedicated to improving the educational experiences of young adolescents by providing vision, knowledge, and resources to all who serve them in order to develop healty, productive, and ethical citizens.

COURT TV - Court TV is the only 24-hour cable network dedicated to crime and justice in America. Choices and Consequences is an ongoing initiative developed by Court TV, in association with Cable in the Classroom, National Middle School Association, AT&T, Time Warner Cable, and other leading cable companies. It is a broad-based public service campaign aimed at young adolescents that includes live television events and a classroom curriculum. The curriculum features court cases involving teenagers who have engaged in behaviors without considering the potential consequences of their actions.

AT&T Corp. is the world1s premier voice and data communications company, serving more than 80 million customers, including consumers, businesses, and government. AT&T Broadband & Internet Services, a business unit of AT&T, is one of the nation1s leading providers of video and broadband data services, serving more than 10 million customers. For more information about AT&Ts education initiatives, visit www.att.com/learningnetwork.

Cable in the Classroom is a public service of the cable communications industry. Members such as Court TV and AT&T provide approved K-12 schools with free cable connections and more than 500 hours of commercial-free, copyright-cleared educational programming each month.
   

The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913 "to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike," is one of the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agencies fighting anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defending democratic ideals, and protecting civil rights. The ADL's A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE© Institute is an international institute with anti-bias education programs in schools, universities, corporations, and community and law-enforcement agencies.

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC) is a nonprofit research and development organization that links research with practice to address important challenges in health, education, human rights, justice, technology, and the environment. The National Center for Hate Crime Prevention within EDC is funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and by the U.S. Department of Education1s Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program. The goal of the center is to improve hate crime prevention efforts

The U.S. Department of Education was established on May 4, 1980 by Congress in the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88 of October 1979). The Department's mission is to:
• Strengthen the federal commitment to ensuring access to equal educational opportunity for every individual;
• Supplement and complement the efforts of states, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the states, the private sector, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community-based organizations, parents, and students to improve the quality of education;
• Encourage the increased involvement of the public, parents, and students in federal education programs;
• Promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of education through federally supported research, evaluation, and sharing of information;
• Improve the coordination of federal education programs;
• Improve the management of federal education activities; and
• Increase the accountability of federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.