| Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Robinson, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 031229543X ISBN-13: 9780312295431 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2005 Annotation: When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, "The Baltimore Sun "called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005047619 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Oral History |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.95 lbs) 311 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-Atlantic - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Maryland - Locality - Baltimore, Maryland |
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| Publisher Description: When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life |