Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk: Report #32

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 study analyzes survey data from 423 parents at six high schools in Maryland—two rural, two urban, and two suburban.Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education (R-117-D400005