Education as My Agenda: Gertrude Williams, Race, and the Baltimore Public Schools
(Part of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:031229543X
ISBN13:9780312295431
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:311 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"
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