Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk: Report #6

The Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) was established in 1994 and continued until 2004. It was a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Howard University. CRESPAR’s mission was to conduct research, development, evaluation, and dissemination of replicable strategies designed to transform schooling for students who were placed at risk due to inadequate institutional responses to such factors as poverty, ethnic minority status, and non-English-speaking home background.Success for All, a comprehensive schoolwide reform program for elementary schools serving many children placed at risk of school failure, was first piloted in one Baltimore elementary school in the 1987–88 school year. In 1988–89 it was expanded to five schools in Baltimore and one in Philadelphia. Currently, Success for All is being implemented in approximately 450 schools in 120 districts in 31 states throughout the United States.Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U. S. Department of Education (R-117-D40005