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 and the Arts
Mary Jean Le Tendre

Parents and Schools: Partnerships that Count
Virginia R.L. Plunkett

Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act: What It Looks Like in Practice
Shelley H. Billig

Case Studies

Roscoe Elementary School: Cultivating a Caring Community in an Urban
Elementary School
Cindy C. Kratzer

Research Articles

Ethnicity, Mathematics Achievement Level, Socioeconomic Status, and Gender among High School Students' Mathematic Self-Concepts
Barbara Signer, T. Mark Beasley, and Elizabeth Bauer

Book Reviews

National Issues in Education Elementary and Secondary Education Act, by Jack Jennings
Phyllis McClure

Multicultural Education, Transformative Knowledge, and Action: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by James A. Banks
Mary Nix

Who Chooses? Who Loses? Culture, Institutions, and the Unequal Effects of School Choice, edited by Bruce Fuller and Richard F. Elmore
Charles Glenn

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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