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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Beard, Karen Stansberry – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2012
This article presents researcher reflections of a case study of a Black female deputy superintendent who made the value-driven decision to close the achievement gap in her district. I posit that she is an outlier because she is Black and female in a predominantly white male field of practice, she effectively closed the achievement gap through her…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Feminism, Qualitative Research, Females
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Beard, Karen Stansberry; Brown, Kathleen M. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2008
According to Tschannen-Moran, "Principals and teachers need to build trusting relationships with students and parents in order to accomplish their essential goal of fostering student achievement and equipping students for citizenship." In the context of organizational trust, this study explored such relationships with six, middle-class…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Mothers, African American Students, Suburban Schools