Over five million children in the US are served by Title I schools. Following the implementation of the Improving America's Schools Act (IASA) in 1994, Title I has sought to assist schools in helping children to gain the knowledge they need for academic success.

As one of the foremost journals specifically aimed at the improvement of the educational experience of at-risk students, JESPAR assists researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in identifying what programs and policies work in our schools today.

 

Editors' Introduction
Sam Stringfield and John Hollifield

Communications Features

Implementation of Title I of the Improving America's Schools Act: A 1997-1998 Update
Shelley Billig

Case Studies

Starbase Atlantis, A School Without Walls: A Comparative Study of an Innovative Science Program
Marquay L. Lee-Pearce, Travis S. Plowman and Donna Touchstone


Research Articles

Towards an Understanding of Unusually Successful Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Students
Lorin W. Anderson and Leonard O. Pellicer

Influence of Gender and Academic Risk Behavior on Career Decision Making and Occupational Choice in Early Adolescence
Jay W. Rojewski and Roger B. Hill


Book Reviews

Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South, by Vanessa Siddle Walker
Faustine Jones-Wilson

Putting the Community Back into Urban Schools: A Review of Rallying the Whole Village, by James P. Comer
Robert J. Stevens and David B. McNaughton

Advocacy and Research: The Challenge of the Rural Homeless. A review of Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America, by Yvonne M. Vissing
Gary G. Huang

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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