Cultural Diversity and the School-Family Connection.

However, schools across the country are experiencing increasing difficulty involving families in these traditional ways. They also are finding that the growing numbers of students with a variety of ethnic, economic, and social backgrounds makes reaching out to families more complex. With some aspects of diversity—for example, parents who speak little or no English —schools have responded in useful ways, such as distributing newsletters in more than one language. But there remain substantial barriers. Some barriers—for example, poverty and limited knowledge of the English language—are obvious to edu-