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Center for
Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR):
Every Child has the Capacity to Succeed in School and in Life
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Yet far too many children fail to meet their potential. Many
students, especially those from poor and minority families, are
placed at risk by school practices that sort some students into
high-quality programs and other students into low-quality
education. CRESPAR believes that schools must replace the
"sorting paradigm" with a "talent development" model that sets
high expectations for all students, and ensures that all
students receive a rich and demanding curriculum with
appropriate assistance and support.
THE
CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON THE EDUCATION OF STUDENTS PLACED AT RISK
(CRESPAR) was established in 1994 as a collaboration between
Johns Hopkins University and Howard University. CRESPAR's
mission is to conduct research, development, evaluation, and
dissemination of replicable strategies designed to transform
schooling for students who are placed at risk due to inadequate
institutional responses to such factors as poverty, ethnic
minority status, and non-English-speaking home background. The
work of the Center is guided by three central themes:
TALENT DEVELOPMENT The fundamental theme in all CRESPAR programs
of research is the design of educational interventions that will
develop the talents of all children. We see children as having
personal, cultural, and social assets that are too often
neglected or underutilized in educational systems, causing many
children to be placed at risk. Our research programs seek to
understand children's strengths, create educational methods, and
develop family and community partnerships to build on those
strengths, evaluate the results of these approaches, and
disseminate strategies that prove to be effective.
SUCCESS AT KEY DEVELOPMENTAL HURDLES Along with a talent
development focus, all CRESPAR programs aim to identify points
in children's schooling when things may go wrong. We create
interventions at those points to ensure that children remain on
a successful learning trajectory that leads to good adjustment
to new schools, high school graduation, college attendance, and
success in the workforce.
SCALING UP EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS It is not enough to know how
children learn and how we can teach them all successfully. We
also must know how to disseminate successful strategies and how
to create school, district, state, and national policies that
will guide the effective implementation of proven programs and
practices.
JOHNS HOPKINS
UNIVERSITY
Center for Social Organization of Schools
3003 North Charles Street, Ste 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: 410-516-8800
Fax:
410-516-8890
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
2900 Van Ness Street, N.W.
Washington DC 20008
Phone: 202-806-8484
Fax:
202-806-8498
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