The Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR) is the only academic journal to date that provides quantitative and qualitative research focused exclusively on improving the education of students placed at risk. JESPAR publishes literature and report reviews, research articles on promising reform programs, and case studies on "schools that work."

In doing so, JESPAR facilitates communication among all the stakeholders (researchers, policy-makers, and educators) who are actively involved in improving the education of students placed at risk.
 

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9
(2004)

The Effects of Magnet Schools on Neighborhood High Schools: An Examination of Achievement Among Entering Freshmen; High-Achieving Middle Schools for Latino Students in Poverty; A Tool for Observing Literacy Tutors: The Volunteer Tutor Instructional Practices Checklist; Book Reviews

R. C. Neild, D. Jesse, A. Davis, N. Pokorny, J. B. Cobb, D. D. Allen, A. M. Wilson, J. C. Wayman

8
(2003)

Making School Relevant for At-Risk Students: The Wai'anae High School Hawaiian Studies Program; Powerful Learning Environments: The Critical Link Between Changes in School Culture and Improvements in Student Learning; The Nativity Mission Center: A Successful Approach to the Education of Hispanic Boys
A Renaissance on the Eastside: Motivating Inner-City Youth through Art; Book Review

L. Yamauchi, C. Finnan, K. C. Schnepel, L. W. Anderson, M Gasman, S. Anderson-Thompkins J. J. Podsiadlo, W. W. Philliber, L. Cohen-Vogel
  Effective Literacy Practices and Challenging Curriculum for At-Risk Learners: Great Expectations; Changes in Students' Academic Performance and Perceptions of School and Self Before Dropping Out of Schools; Partners-in-Reading: Using Classroom Assistants to Provide Tutorial Assistance to Struggling First-Grade Readers; Helping Behaviorally At-Risk Middle School Students with the No Bad Actions Program: Winning with the N.B.A.; Book Reviews C. Janisch, M. Johnson, W. Lan, R. Lanthier, J. R. Slate, C. H. Jones, S. D. Miller, S. H. Billig, K. K. Metcalf

 

"Becoming" Effective: Lessons From One State's Reform Initiative in Schools Serving
Low-Income Students;
A Comparison of School Readiness Outcomes for Children Randomly Assigned to a Head Start Program and the Program's Wait List; Impacts of the Co-nect school reform design on classroom instruction, school climate, and student achievement in inner-city schools; Using a curriculum-based instructional management system to enhance math achievement in urban schools; Book Reviews
K. J. Brock, C. Groth, M. Abbott-Shim, R. Lambert, F. McCarty, S. M. Ross, D. L. Lowther, J. Ysseldyke, R. Spicuzza, S. Kosciolek, E. Teelucksingh, C. Boys, A. Lemkuil, P. S. Angelle, S. Fleischman, M. A. Mac Iver, L. Smith, M. R. Newsom, L. R. Weaver
 

Special Issue- Quest for Quality: An Evaluation of the City-State Partnership in Baltimore's Public Schools. The Evaluation of Baltimore's City-State Partnership to Reform BCPSS: Framing the Context, National Trends, and Key Findings; Background and Design of the Evaluation of the City-State Partnership; Achievement Outcomes in Baltimore City Schools; Instructional Interventions; Recruitment, Retention, Professional Development, and Performance Evaluation of Teachers and Principals in Baltimore City's Public Schools; Governance and Management; Implications and Recommendations; Partnership, Accountability, and Standards-Based Reform: Reflections on the Baltimore City-State Partnership

J. G. Cibulka, J. Frechtling, P. A. Butler, J. S. Michie, A. McConney, R. Ayres, J. B. Hansen, L. Cuthbertson, J. O'Day

7 (2002)

Internal Teacher Turnover in Urban Middle School Reform; Teachers' Assessment Practices in School Restructuring Models; African American Students' Descriptions of Effective Teachers; Book Reviews
S. Stringfield, A. Ruby, L. Bol, S. Ross, J. Nunnery, M. Alberg, T.Howard, R. Durham, W. Winters
Career Academies and Urban Minority Schooling; Cooperative Life Skills Programs; At-Risk First Graders; New Resources in Urban Schools; Book Reviews G. Conchas, P. Clark, L. Thurston, P. Dev, B. Doyle, B. Valente, J. Xu, A. Chamberlain, F. Finnigan, J. Boykin-McCarthy, J. Burt
Direct Instruction Reading Programs: Examining Effectiveness for At-Risk Students in Urban Settings E. Kemper, M. Mac Iver, M. Ligas, C. Carlson, D. Francis, D. O'Brien, A. Ware, M. Berkeley, B. Grossen, J. Silbert, B. Rosenshine
Cognitive Readiness Among Preschoolers; Using Risk Factors to Identify Dropouts; Federal Dropout Prevention Evaluations; Career Academies; Book Reviews T. Beasley, P. Gleason, M. Dynarski, M. Elliott, L. Hanser, C. Gilroy, E. Pechman, M. Leighton, J. Stern, D. Kalkofen, H. Waxman, W. Feltham
6 (2001)
Testing a Model for America Reads; Title I Schoolwide Programs: District Support; Reading Enjoyment and Comprehension of Ethnic Minority Students; Inclusion and Adaptive Instruction in Elementary Education; Math Corps Summer Camp; Book Reviews J. Meier, M. Invernizzi, S. Etheridge, A. Rickford, T. Houtveen, W. Van de Grift, T. Edwards, S. Kahn, L. Brenton, G. Noblit, M. Bonner, R. Rueda, M. White-Hood, S. Stringfield
Parents and Students in a Poor White Urban School; New York City's Low-Performing Schools; Low-SES Parents and Science Problems; School Policies and Student Attrition; Consistency Management and Student Mathematics; Cognitive Learning Styles and Academic Performace in First-Year University Courses; Book Reviews S. O'Connor, C. Ascher, N. Fruchter, M. Zady, P. Portes, J. Epp, W. Epp, H. Freiberg, M. Connell, J. Lorentz, M. Drysdale, J. Ross, R. Schulz, J. Edwards, E. Kemper, K. Epstein, F. Karlen, I. McHenry, B. Rosenshine
Special Issue: When Diversity Works: Bridging Families, Peers, Schools, and Communities at CREDE C. Cooper, P. Gándara, C. Adger, F. Collignon, M. Men, S. Tan, M. Azmitia, D. Gutiérrez, S. O'Hara, R. Durán, J. Durán, D. Perry-Romero, E. Sanchez, N. González, R. Andrade, M. Civil, L. Moll, R. Henze, G. Garcia, J. Epstein
5 (2000)
The Promise and Perils of Comprehensive School Reform; Districtwide Reform in Schools with Title I Schoolwide Programs: Philadelphia; Inequities in Early Care and Education; School Vouchers and Children Placed At Risk; Book Reviews
S. Stringfield, T. Hatch, K. Wong, G. Sunderman, J. Sachs, M. Mac Iver, B. Wasik, G. Hughes, M. Castellano, M. Cutright, S. Plank, K. Tiner, C. Teddlie, K. Welner, M. Dianda
State Education Indicators for Monitoring Title I; A Principal's Reform of an At-Risk Elementary Urban School; Child Abuse: What Teachers in the 90s Know, Think, and Do; Dropping Out Among Mexican American Youth; Community Support for Preschool Readiness; Book Reviews
S. Stringfield, R. Blank, J. Manise, C. Mullen, R. Patrick, J. Hinson, R. Fossey, R. Hess, C. Huebner, B. Glenn, M. Irving, M. Eaton, E. Schaffer
Special Issue: CRESPAR Findings (1994-1999): In Memory of John H. Hollifield, Jr.
A. Boykin, R. Slavin, S. Stringfield, G. Borman, S. Nettles, W. Mucherah, D. Jones, M. Sanders, J. Epstein, B. Cole-Henderson, B. Wasik, N. Karweit, M. Bond, L. Woodruff, G. Jaeger, S. Adee, N. Madden, R. Balfanz, D. Mac Iver, W. Jordan, J. McPartland, N. Legters, A. Datnow
4 (1999)
Nathan Goldblatt School; Implementing a Career Academy Program for a Diverse High School Population; Bilingual and ESL Adaptations of Success for All on the Reading Achievement of Students Acquiring English; Sport Education Curriculum and At-Risk Rural Adolescent Boys; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, P. Nesselrodt, E. Schaffer, A. Shorr, J. Hon, R. Slavin, N. Madden, P. Hastie, T. Sharpe, G. Conchas, E. Ihle, B. Smith, R. Herman, M. von Euler
Bridging the Gap Between Early Childhood Education and Primary Education; From Traditional Power Bases to a Proactive Agenda: Implications for Title I; School Support Teams; School-Based Management and Instructional Improvement: Two ATLAS Schools; Urban School Reform: Student Responses to Detracking in a Racially Mixed High School; Onward to Excellence in Mississippi Schools; Implementation Fidelity in Title I Schoolwide Programs; Mathematics Attribution Differences by Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, J. McDonald, S. Billig, S. Perry, N. Pokorny, D. Squires, R. Kranyik, R. Cooper, J. Kushman, K. Yap, D. Taylor, C. Teddlie, E. Mooney, C. Thornton, P. Paz, C. Pipho, E. Dottin, S. Alleyne, S. Yonezawa, T. Thornton
Central Park East Elementary School; The Casualties of a Principal's Commitment to the Status Quo; At-Risk Students Attending Second Chance Programs; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Raywid, B. Merchant, C. Lange, C. Lehr, J. Chrispeels, J. Newby, P. Sola, P. McClure, A. Awaya
Special Issue: The Integrated Reform Projects of CREDE A. Datnow, S. Yonezawa, R. Tharp, H. Lewis, R. Hilberg, C. Bird, G. Epaloose, S. Dalton, D. Youpa, H. Rivera, M. Riding In-Feathers, W. Eriacho, L. Yamauchi, A. Ceppi, J. Lau-Smith, E. McIntyre, D. Kyle, R. Hovda, N. Stone, Y. Padrón, H. Waxman, S. Huang, L. Hubbard, H. Mehan
3 (1998)
Title I and Mathematics; Taming the Pendulum: Striking a Balance; The Effectiveness of the Title I Compensatory Education Program, 1965-1997; Talent Development in a Troubled Urban High School; Longitudinal Achievement of Chapter 1 Students; Longitudinal Achievement and Chapter 1 Coordination in High-Poverty Schools; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, M. Chabrán, V. Plunkett, E. McDill, G. Natriello, J. McPartland, R. Balfanz, W. Jordan, N. Legters, G. Borman, J. D'Agostino, K. Wong, L. Hedges, S. Thompson, M. White-Hood
Implementation of Title I: A 1997-1998 Update; Starbase-Atlantis: An Innovative Science Program for At-Risk Urban Elementary Students; Unusually Successful Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Students; The Influence of Gender and Academic Risk Behavior on Career Decision Making; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, S. Billig, M. Lee-Pearce, T. Plowman, D. Touchstone, L. Anderson, L. Pellicer, J. Rojewski, R. Hill, F. Jones-Wilson, R. Stevens, D. McNaughton, G. Huang
Paraprofessionals: A Resource for Tomorrow's Teachers; Resources and Change Through Title I Schoolwide Programs; Variations in More and Less Effective Schools in Low- and Middle-Socioeconomic Status Contexts; Whole-School Approach to Prevention and Intervention in Early Literacy; Dropout Prevention and College Attendance Programs; Book Reviews J. Hollifield, S. Stringfield, M. Le Tendre, V. PLunkett, D. Taylor, C. Teddlie, J. Freeman, M. Pounders, C. Crévola, P. Hill, O. Fashola, R. Slavin, G. Borman, S. Hord, J. Nunnery, A. Troutman, R. Laitinen
Special Issue: Changing Schools for Changing Times: The Comer School Development Program S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, N. Haynes, D. Woodruff, N. Shannon, M. Efimba, F. Brown, V. Maholmes, E. Murray, L. Nathan, G. Hagopian, M. Ben-Avie, C. Emmons
2 (1997)
Title I and the Arts; Parents and Schools: Partnerships; Title I: What it Looks Like in Practice; Roscoe Elementary School; Ethnicity, Mathematics Achievement, Socioeconomic Status, and Gender Among High School Students' Mathematics Self-Concepts; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, V. Plunkett, S. Billig, C. Kratzer, B. Signer, T. Beasley, E. Bauer, P. McClure, M. Nix, C. Glenn

Title I and Children; Focus on Children's Learning: the Improving America's Schools Act; Rural Youth At Risk; Male African Americans, Single Parent Homes, and Educational Plans; Promising Programs for Elementary and Middle Schools; Book Reviews

S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, V. Plunkett, R. Rossi, P. Vergun, L. Weise, M. Bateman, E. Kennedy, O. Fashola, R. Slavin, J. Banks, R. Jeffries
Title I, Part A and Technology; The Real Challenge of the Improving America's Schools Act; Successful Pedagogy in Urban Schools: Four African American Teachers; Carter G. Woodson Elementary School; Academic Development for Black, White, and Hispanic High School Students; Reading Recovery: Long-Term Progress; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, V. Plunkett, G. Stanford, B. McHugh, S. Spath, S. Madhere, N. Baenen, A. Bernholc, C. Dulaney, K. Banks, A. Davis, M. Philipsen, T. Howard
Title I and Family Literacy; Parent Involvement and Title I; Barnstable High School PM Program; Preventing Early School Failure: Success for All and Standardized Tests, Minority Group Performance, and School Effectiveness; Barriers to Organizational Learning in Urban School Change Initiatives; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, M. Beach, S. Inger, S. Ross, L. Smith, J. Casey, E. Useem, J. Christman, E. Gold, E. Simon, J. Antony, M. Sanders
1 (1996)
Professional Development; Homeless Children; School-Based Student and Family Services; Story Reading Programs and Disadvantaged Preschoolers; Parental Involvement in Prekindergarten At-Risk Programs; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, M. Beach, G. Wehlage, C. Stone, N. Karweit, B. Wasik, B. McBride, H. Lin, S. Sarason, R. Bardley
New Opportunities for Supporting School Reform Through Title I; Expanding Advocacy; Fairfield Court Elementary; Atenville Elementary School; The Baltimore School-Family-Community Partnership Program; Title I and School-Family-Community Partnerships; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, J. Carroll, V. Binford, R. Robertson, D. Dalton, D. Dingess, C. Dingess, J. McCann, D. Farley, C. Ramey, D. Adkins, S. Maynard, M. Sanders, J. Epstein, L. Hubbard, S. Woolworth
  Title I Schoolwide Programs; Policy Issues: Student Performance and Congressional Support; King Middle School; Lingelbach Elementary School; Urban Student Mobility and Local School Reform; Title I Schoolwide Programs; Book Reviews S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, J. Carroll, A. Datnow, D. Hirshberg, J. Hirshman, D. Kerbow, E. Pechman, L. Fiester, S. Rivers, K. Lomotey, K. Howey
The Improving America's Schools Act and Title I; A State Perspective on Improving America's Schools; The Hawthorne Case Studies Series: The Teachers Perspective; the University Perspective; the Evaluator's Perspective; Success for All: A Summary of Research; Program Improvement Implemtentation in Chapter 1 Schools; Book Reviews

S. Stringfield, J. Hollifield, M. Le Tendre, J. Carroll, D. Mentzer, T. Shaughnessy, B. Frazee, G. Schubnell, R. Slavin, N. Madden, L. Dolan, B. Wasik, S. Ross, L. Smith, M. Dianda, C. George, J. Grissom, A. Just, J. Golubich, P. Nesselrodt

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