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 practioners in identifying what programs and policies work in our schools today.

Case Study

Career Academies and Urban Minority Schooling: Forging Optimism Despite Limited Opportunity
Gilberto Conchas

Research Articles

Practical Partnerships: Analysis and Results of a Cooperative Life Skills Program for At-Risk Rural Youth
Linda Thurston

Labels Needn't Stick: "At-Risk" First Graders Rescued with Appropriate Intervention
Poonam Dev

The Use of Newly-Added Resources in Urban Schools to Foster School Improvement: Contexts, Mediating Factors, and Their Impact
Jianzhong Xu

Book Reviews

Telling A Different Story: Teaching and Literacy in an Urban Preschool, by Catherine Wilson
Anne Chamberlain

Creating New Schools: How Small Schools Are Changing American Education, edited by Evans Clinchy
Fran Finnigan

Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform, by Jeanne Oakes, Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan, and Martin Lipton
Judy Boykin-McCarthy

Multicultural Gifted Education: Education and Psychology of the Gifted Series, by Donna Y. Ford and J. John Harris III
Januela Burt

Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk
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