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.

   

JESPAR 8(3), July 2003

Research Articles:

Effective literacy practices and challenging curriculum for at-risk learners: Great expectations
Carole Janisch and Margaret Johnson

Changes in Students' Academic Performance and Perceptions of School and Self Before Dropping Out From School
William Lan and Richard Lanthier

Case Studies:

Partners-in-Reading: Using Classroom Assistants to Provide Tutorial Assistance to Struggling First-Grade Readers
Samuel D. Miller

Helping behaviorally at-risk middle school students with the No Bad Actions Program: Winning with the N.B.A.
John R. Slate and Craig H. Jones

Book Reviews:

Title I: Compensatory Education at the Crossroads, Edited by Geoffrey D. Borman, Samuel C. Stringfield, and Robert E. Slavin, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2001
Shelley H. Billig

The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools, William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson. Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2002.
Kim K. Metcalf

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