Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk

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 includes: Putting Data in the Driver's Seat: Web Site Eases Way for Educators; Involving Families in Homework Pays Off; Are Teachers Teaching to National Standards?; Research Base Grows With Popularity of Two-Way Immersion; School Districts Play Significant Role in Reform; Howard Researchers Study Math Alignment Issues; Baltimore to Open Innovation High School Based on TDHS; and News & Notes section