An Education In Georgia

Author : Calvin Trillin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820360669

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An Education in Georgia by Calvin Trillin Pdf

In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for Time Magazine, attended the court fight that led to the admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their first week at the university—a week that began in relative calm, moved on to a riot and the suspension of the two students "for their own safety," and ended with both returning to the campus under a new court order. Shortly before their graduation in 1963, Trillin came back to Georgia to determine what their college lives had been like. He interviewed not only Holmes and Hunter but also their families, friends, and fellow students, professors, and university administrators. The result was this book—a sharply detailed portrait of how these two young people faced coldness, hostility, and occasional understanding on a southern campus in the midst of a great social change.

Author : Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319959153

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Teachers as Tutors: Shadow Education Market Dynamics in Georgia by Magda Nutsa Kobakhidze Pdf

The so-called shadow education system of private supplementary tutoring has become a global phenomenon but has different features in different settings. This book explores the ways in which teacher-tutors’ beliefs, social norms, ideals about professionalism, and community values shape their economic decisions in the informal shadow education marketplace. Through theoretical lenses of economic sociology and anthropology, this study uncovers strong social and moral embeddedness of the shadow education market in social relationships, cultural norms and moralities in post-Soviet Georgia. The book questions some of the basic assumptions that the predominant neoliberal discourse promotes worldwide. The book is based on Kobakhidze’s PhD dissertation, which won the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) Gail P. Kelly Outstanding Dissertation Award. “[A] theoretically innovative and substantively enlightening account of shadow schooling in Georgia... A landmark achievement.” Roger Dale, University of Bristol “... an important and timely topic ... addressed with exceptional thoroughness. It constitutes a solid piece of academic work and clearly makes a significant contribution to the field of shadow education.”Heidi Biseth, University College of Southeast Norway, Chair of Gail P. Kelly Award Committee in 2017 “...through robust critical analysis, Kobakhidze invites a humanistic re-visioning of economy and society.“ Ora Kwo, The University of Hong Kong

Author : Patrick Novotny
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0881460885

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This Georgia Rising by Patrick Novotny Pdf

This Georgia Rising is a study of Georgia's political changes in the decade of the Second World War and in the postwar years of the 1940s. Georgia's political establishment underwent challenges in the 1940s in everything from Georgians defending the state's university system from attacks by Governor Eugene Talmadge to challenges by Georgia's larger cities and towns to the state's county unit system to the early postwar stirrings of the modern civil rights movement. An array of progressive forces--including Georgia's veterans of the Second World War, college and university students, newspaper editors and reporters in the state's larger circulating newspapers and smaller town newspapers--fought for change in some of the state's political institutions, culminating in the 1942 election of Governor Ellis Arnall and in 1945 the changes to the state constitution. This Georgia Rising is a detailed study of the gubernatorial races of the 1940s as they are interwoven with the larger political and social changes of wartime and then postwar Georgia. This book draws not only from Georgia's larger circulation newspapers but also focuses on its smaller circulation newspapers and especially its African-American newspapers, including The Atlanta Daily World and The Savannah Tribune. This Georgia Rising offers a detailed and rich narrative of a decade of far-reaching change in twentieth-century Georgia. --Publisher description.

Author : Andrew Gumbel
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620974711

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Won’t Lose This Dream by Andrew Gumbel Pdf

The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students "Georgia State . . . has been reimagined—amid a moral awakening and a raft of data-driven experimentation—as one of the South's more innovative engines of social mobility." —The New York Times Won’t Lose This Dream is the inspiring story of a public university that has blazed an extraordinary trail for lower-income and first-generation students in downtown Atlanta, the birthplace of the civil rights movement. Over the past decade Georgia State University has upended the conventional wisdom that large numbers of students are doomed to fail simply because of their economic background or the color of their skin. Instead, it has harnessed the power of big data to identify and remove the obstacles that previously stopped them from graduating and completely transformed their prospects. A student from a mediocre high school working two jobs to make ends meet is now no less likely to succeed than a child of wealth and privilege—an earth-shaking achievement that is reverberating across every college campus in the country. With unique access to the key players and drawing on his skills as an investigative reporter, Andrew Gumbel delivers a thrilling, blow-by-blow account of a long battle to determine whether universities exist for their students or vice versa. The story is told through the visionary leaders who overcame fierce resistance to tear up the rules of their own institution and through the many remarkable students whose resilience and determination, often against daunting odds, inspired the work at every stage. Their success shows how the promise of social advancement through talent and hard work, the essence of the American dream, can be rekindled even in an age of deep inequalities and divisive politics.

Author : Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319529806

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25 Years of Transformations of Higher Education Systems in Post-Soviet Countries by Jeroen Huisman,Anna Smolentseva,Isak Froumin Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.

Author : Charles Edgeworth Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015023084497

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Education in Georgia by Charles Edgeworth Jones Pdf

Author : Li Richard Ruochen,Kitchen Hannah,George Bert,Richardson Mary,Fordham Elizabeth
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264625976

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OECD Reviews of Evaluation and Assessment in Education: Georgia by Li Richard Ruochen,Kitchen Hannah,George Bert,Richardson Mary,Fordham Elizabeth Pdf

This review, developed in partnership with UNICEF, provides Georgia with recommendations to strengthen its evaluation and assessment system to focus on helping students learn. It will be of interest to countries that wish to strengthen their own evaluation and assessment systems and, in turn, improve educational outcomes.

Author : John Dayton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522992839

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Georgia Education Law by John Dayton Pdf

Welcome to the Second Edition of Georgia Education Law. If you want to acquire a strong working knowledge of Georgia Education Law, this is the book you need. From cover to cover this book is designed to actively engage you in building a vital working knowledge of the law in practice. Inside you will find the most current laws; concise summaries of essential legal principles; useful flow-charts and check-lists; and helpful professional practice tips all at a welcomed reader-friendly price. This book is perfect as a compelling and engaging textbook, and as an invaluable desktop reference for daily use in practice. Be sure and also read John Dayton's Education Law: Principles, Policies, and Practice, providing a comprehensive presentation of federal education laws as the necessary counterpart to this essential state law book.

Author : Stephen F. Jones,Neil MacFarlane
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487507855

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Georgia by Stephen F. Jones,Neil MacFarlane Pdf

This multidisciplinary collection provides a unique insiders' perspective on the major issues in Georgian politics, society, and economics in the twenty-five years since its independence from the Soviet Union.

Author : Martha Mizell Puckett
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820322598

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Memories of a Georgia Teacher by Martha Mizell Puckett Pdf

"While Puckett offers a valuable perspective on schooling in the twentieth-century rural South, she also captures the essence of daily life in the communities in which she taught. We read of how she sometimes boarded with the parents of her pupils; of how teachers, students, and parents joined together in observance of holidays; and of how schooling managed to continue through the busy growing seasons. Personal details of Puckett's life also emerge, from her relationship with her parents to her life at home with her husband and their eight children.".

Author : Georgia. Department of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119289952

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Annual Report of the State of Georgia, Department of Education by Georgia. Department of Education Pdf

Author : Georgia K. Irvin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 1568332513

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Georgia Irvin's Guide to Schools by Georgia K. Irvin Pdf

Basing this guide on two decades of experience, Georgia Irvin herein offers her picks and pans of the best day schools in the District of Columbia and surrounding areas.

Author : Maurice Charles Daniels
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780820355979

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Ground Crew by Maurice Charles Daniels Pdf

"In the case Hunt v. Arnold, Barbara Hunt, Myra Dinsmore, and Iris Welch won a groundbreaking federal injunction against the all-white Georgia State College in downtown Atlanta. In contrast to the widespread coverage of the University of Georgia case, the plaintiffs in this case, along with local activists involved in the case and the court victory itself, have been overlooked in civil rights history. Daniels sheds light on this forgotten piece of the fight to end segregation in the state of Georgia" --

Author : Robert A. Pratt
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820327808

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We Shall Not Be Moved by Robert A. Pratt Pdf

Tells the story of a group of African-American lawyers and plaintiffs and their white allies who were determined to break down racial barriers at the University of Georgia in the 1950s. Reprint.

Author : James O’Neil Spady
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000047332

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Education and the Racial Dynamics of Settler Colonialism in Early America by James O’Neil Spady Pdf

This is the first historical monograph to demonstrate settler colonialism’s significance for Early America. Based on a nuanced reading of the archive and using a comparative approach, the book treats settler colonialism as a process rather than a coherent ideology. Spady shows that learning was a central site of colonial struggle in the South, in which Native Americans, Africans, and European settlers acquired and exploited each other’s knowledge and practices. Learned skills, attitudes, and ideas shaped the economy and culture of the region and produced challenges to colonial authority. Factions of enslaved people and of Native American communities devised new survival and resistance strategies. Their successful learning challenged settler projects and desires, and white settlers gradually responded. Three developments arose as a pattern of racialization: settlers tried to prohibit literacy for the enslaved, remove indigenous communities, and initiate some of North America's earliest schools for poorer whites. Fully instituted by the end of the 1820s, settler colonization’s racialization of learning in the South endured beyond the Civil War and Reconstruction.