JESPAR welcomes your submissions. We publish refereed research
articles on promising programs; descriptions of promising programs
in the field; case studies of "schools that work"; literature reviews; book and report reviews; regular communications on Title I regulations; and school and district practices from federal, state, and local perspectives.
  

Editors' Introduction
Sam Stringfield and John Hollifield

Communications Feature

Title I Can Help Give a Voice of Hope to All Children
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Focus on Children's Learning: The Central Purpose of Improving America's Schools Act
Virginia R.L. Plunkett

Case Studies

Serving Rural Youth At Risk: A Portrait of Collaboration and Community
Robert J. Rossi and Pamela Vergun, and Larry J. Weise

Research Articles

Males African Americans, Single Parent Homes, and Educational Plans: Implications for Educators and Policy Makers
Mark Bateman and Eugene Kennedy

Promising Programs for Elementary and Middle Schools: Evidence of Effectiveness and Replicability
Olatokunbo S. Fashola and Robert E. Slavin

Book Reviews

Encyclopedia of African-American Education, edited by Faustine C. Jones-Wilson, Charles A. Ashbury, Margo Okazawa-Rey, D. Kamili Anderson, Sylvia M. Jacobs, and Michael Fultz
James A. Banks

The School That Refused to Die, by Daniel L. Duke
Rhonda Baynes Jeffries
Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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