The level of preschool suspensions and expulsions has reached crisis proportions. Black
children represented 47% of young children receiving one or more suspensions despite …

Children's school performance and socioemotional development is influenced by classroom
climate and particularly emotional support offered by teachers. Also, boys and girls socialize …

Young children in the United States, particularly Black boys, are being suspended and
expelled from early childhood education programs and primary schools at alarming rates …

Literature suggests that teachers are more likely to have conflictual relationship with children
from racially/ethnically diverse background in comparison to white children. One may argue …

This investigation examines teacher—student relationships among African American youth
from low-income backgrounds (N= 193). Students and their teachers completed measures of …

We examined whether teacher–child racial congruence and child race moderated the
association between children's emotion situation knowledge and the dimensions of teacher …

This study examined whether race/ethnicity and family income level moderated associations
between children's affective social competence and teacher–child relationships among 132 …

Past research highlights the important role of the teacher-child relationship in children's
school adjustment and success. The primary purpose of the present study was to examine …

This study examined how a teacher's attachment history influenced the quality of the teacher-
child attachment relationship, and how racial differences between teacher and child …

A qualitative case study research design was used to describe the affect a teachers'
interpersonal efficacy level has on building relationships with African American middle …