Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk: Report #26

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.This report describes a framework for exploring the processes of resilience in students at Stanton Elementary School, an urban public school in Washington, D.C.Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education (R-117-D400005