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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
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Brown, Kathleen M.; Anfara, Vincent A., Jr.; Roney, Kathleen – Education and Urban Society, 2004
Utilizing a qualitative, multisite case study design and the theoretical framework of Hoy and Hannum (1997), the design and execution of this research investigates plausible explanations for the difference in student achievement between high performing (HPS) suburban middle schools and low performing (LPS) urban middle schools. Aside from the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement