The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker

Article Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions Abstract An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Benford at her school-and her awards and her school's continually rising test scores-I am reminded of Mr. The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.

Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, as well as hidden provocateurs like Horace Tate. And the students respected and loved their school leader. Emory University Professor of African American Educational Studies, Author of The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the. The Lost Education of Horace Tate offers insight into the southern struggle for human rights, revealing little-known accounts of leaders such as W.E.B.

Her words illuminate the passion, the tragedy, and the inventiveness. Benford stretched herself through external professional networks. Vanessa Siddle Walker is a brilliant thinker, a teachers teacher, and a sage storyteller. The faculty worked individually and institutionally to create a caring climate for students. Her teachers developed into professional leaders in content-driven faculty meetings. For example, over five years, I watched Pamela Benford, a former principal of Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta, who had been mentored by another black principal from the segregation era, foster aspiration in an urban school environment and advocate for her students. I might think so, except that I sometimes see parts of the aspiration, advocacy, access formula work successfully in current schools. Vanessa Siddle Walker, The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in. Sometimes people ask if the history of black educators under segregation is just, well, old and irrelevant in today's complex educational world.

The Lost Education of Horace Tate by Vanessa Siddle Walker