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.
    

Editors' Introduction
Sam Stringfield and John Hollifield

Communications Feature

Flexibility and New Opportunities for Supporting School Reform through Title I
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Expanding Advocacy
Janet Carroll

Case Studies

Fairfield Court Elementary: Teamwork through Home, School, and Community
Virgie Binford and Ron Robertson

The Parents as Educational Partners Program at Atenville Elementary School
Darlene Dalton, Deborah Dingess, Cheryl Dingess, Jacqueline McCann, Darlene Farley, Charles Ramey, Dottie Atkins, and Stan Maynard

Action Teams in Action: Interviews and Observations in Three Schools in the Baltimore School-Family-Community Partnership Program
Mavis G. Sanders

Research Articles

Title I Implications for School-Family-Community Partnerships: Using Theory and Research to Realize the Potential
Joyce L. Epstein and John H. Hollifield

Book Reviews

A Review of Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace
Lea Hubbard

A Review of Urban Sanctuaries: Neighborhood Organizations in the Lives and Futures of Inner-City Youth
Stephen T. Woolworth

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
University of Louisville
College of Education and Human Development
Leadership, Foundations and Human Resource Education, Room 333
Louisville KY 40292
Phone: (502) 852-0616
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Email: jespar@louisville.edu
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