This document discusses the impact of collaboration between home, school, and community on student achievement. It outlines that active parent participation is a significant factor in student development. Home-school collaboration can result in higher academic achievement, improved behaviors, and increased graduation rates and college attendance. Effective collaboration between home, school, and community is important to create a holistic learning environment for students. Schools need community support through volunteers and funding to help meet students' social, economic, and family needs in addition to academic needs. Collaboration requires flexibility, compromise, trust, respect, and sharing. Barriers to collaboration include professional differences, pragmatic issues like scheduling, and conceptual or attitudinal differences developed over time.