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Trust In Schools, Student Race, And Third Grade Reading In New York City Public Schools, Alexa Sorden Jan 2022

Trust In Schools, Student Race, And Third Grade Reading In New York City Public Schools, Alexa Sorden

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This quantitative study examines the relationship between teachers' and parents' trust in the school principal in association with third-grade students reading proficiency as determined by the New York State Testing Program. In addition, this study examines the association between combined trust scores and their influence on Black and Latino students’ reading proficiency. This study merged preexisting New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) Learning Environment Survey data and the New York State Testing Program examination data. Six hundred eleven schools comprised the final sample from the 708 public elementary schools that currently make up the NYCDOE traditional public school system …