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

Professional Development: A Tool for Improving Teaching and Learning
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Meeting High Standards: The Challenge of Ensuring that Homeless Children Are
Part of the All
Mary-Elizabeth Beach

Case Studies

School-Based Student and Family Services: Community and Bureaucracy
Gary G. Wehlage and Calvin R. Stone

Research Articles

The Effects of Story Reading Programs on Literacy and Language Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers
Nancy Karweit and Barbara A. Wasik

Parental Involvement in Prekindergarten At-Risk Programs: Multiple Perspectives
Brent A McBride and Hui-Fen Lin

Book Reviews

Redesigning Education, by Kenneth Wilson and Bennett Daviss
Seymour Sarason

Best Ideas from America's Blue Ribbon Schools, from the National Association
of Elementary School Principals
Rosella M. Bardley

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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