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This research synthesis is the third in a series of reports to help local school, community, and family leaders obtain useful research-based information about key educational issues. This synthesis addresses diversity as it relates to student achievement and school, family, and community connections.

Suggests benefits of economic diversity represented in preschool classrooms for improving outcomes of children in low-income families.

Atlanta area mixed-income neighborhood feeds to same local charter school and test scores reflect great progress.

Parent involvement is consistently cited as an important correlate of effective schools. For nearly a quarter of a century, research on parental and family involvement has documented that parents can do much to reinforce positive attitudes toward school, to prepare their children for school, and to support their children's efforts once they are in school.