Mission Statement: The mission of this series is to bring issues of
diversity and educational risk to the forefront of national attention in
order to assist the nation's diverse students at risk of educational
failure to achieve academic excellence. This series will focus on
critical issues in the education of linguistic and cultural minority
students and those placed at risk by factors of race, poverty, and
geographic location. Each volume will include empirical studies and
syntheses of research that provide an integrated view of the emerging
body of research within areas such as: (a) language learning and
academic achievement, (b) professional development, (c) family, peers,
schools, and communities, (d) instruction in context, and (e) integrated
school reform. In order to inform scholars, practitioners, and policy
makers, each volume will provide fundamental knowledge about effective
programs and practices that affect students place at risk through
linguistic, racial, economic, and geographic diversity. Some volumes
will be written by one or two authors on a given aspect of educational
diversity. Most, however, will be edited, thematic works with chapters
written by several expe