"Teacher Beliefs and Student Achievement in Urban Schools Serving African American Students."

Love, Angela, and Ann Cale Kruger. "Teacher Beliefs and Student Achievement in Urban Schools Serving African American Students." Journal of Educational Research 99.2 (2005): 87-98. 22 May 2008 . Authors Love and Kruger emphasized successful teachers of African American students create a relational and personal environment. The authors created survey items that measured teachers' culturally relevant beliefs and ascertained which items correlate with higher student achievement. Also, they surveyed teachers from six urban schools to show the success of all children, endorsed beliefs regarding a communal learning environment, teaching as giving back to the community, and the importance of students' ethnicity.