Giving Compass' Take:

• Pacific Standard reports on AVID, a national non-profit that a number of suburban districts in Georgia are turning to shrink achievement gaps, diversify schools and get students of color ready for college.

• Will other cities also turn to AVID? What other programs are out there that want to help students get into college and how can we best support?

• Here's an article on diversifying New York City's elite high schools. 

Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can't help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Soaring turrets. Columned entrances. Lush lawns. These are folks who clearly have bitten off a sizable chunk of the American dream.

Inside the doors of the middle school, there's a different American story playing out. With a student body that is nearly 70 percent Hispanic and black, and with slightly over half of its 1,100 students categorized as low-income, this is an institution that is not serving the homes around it. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away. If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood.

Read the full article on how AVID is changing the way diversifying schools promote success by Nick Chiles at Pacific Standard.