"Miriam Raider-Roth’s Trusting What You Know: The High Stakes of Classroom Relationships is a deeply respectful volume that honors students and their teachers and takes readers below the surface of children’s learning processes to illuminate the high stakes of relationships in schools … [This] is an involving book that leaves one with a profound sense that the ‘relational paradigm in teaching and learning is not simply a ‘nice perk.’ Raider-Roth demonstrates that the development of learning relationships, which allow children to build an authentic sense of themselves as knowers and learners, is fundamental to a quality education for all children." (Harvard Educational Review, Spring 2007)