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Walker highlights past, future of education in Georgia at 23rd annual Mays Lecture  In 1970, 16 years after the Supreme Court ruled that separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional, Sen. Horace Tate recognized that black students were still at a disadvantage in the new, desegregated school system.
Tate, who was a member of the former Georgia Teachers and Education Association and served as Martin Luther King Jr.'s education advisor, noted that school boards in Georgia and members of the former white teachers association, the Georgia Education Association, didn't have much of a history of protecting the interests of black students. In addition, 31,000 black teachers were fired across the South and replaced with white teachers, many of whom didn't know how to relate to their black students. Those events created a different kind of segregation - one that convinced black children that they couldn't succeed. "Horace Tate said this in 1970, but we could not hear him," said Vanessa Siddle Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Educational Studies at Emory University and keynote speaker at the 23rd annual Benjamin E. Mays Lecture. "These ideas are part of the public memory of black teachers and students, and it's important to understand how they came to be." Approximately 264 people attended this year's Mays Lecture, which is organized and hosted by the College of Education's Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence. To read more about Walker's presentation, click here.
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Upcoming Events in the College of Education
College of Education Fall Convocation
Dec. 13, 2011 
4 p.m.
Peachtree Ballroom, 8th floor
Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel
210 Peachtree Street
Atlanta, GA 30303
The College of Education will hold its Fall Convocation for graduating students on Tuesday, December 13, 2011, at 4:00 p.m. in the Peachtree Ballroom at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel (210 Peachtree Street, Atlanta 30303).
While the University Commencements and Hooding Ceremonies on December 14 signify the official conferral of degrees, the College of Education Convocation, a pre-commencement ceremony, is an opportunity for the college to recognize its graduates and celebrate its students' achievements. We encourage our graduates to participate in both events.
Along with our graduates earning their degree this December, the college will also recognize its August 2011 graduates at this event.
Convocation will feature guest speaker and COE alumnus Sandra Hofmann (B.S. '74), president and board director of Women in Technology, and CIO-in-residence with the Advanced Technology Development Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Ms. Hofmann is also the College of Education's 2011 Distinguished Alumnus recipient.
Registration for this event is required and graduates and degree candidates wishing to participate should confirm their attendance by December 8, 2011, at coeconvocation@gsu.edu.
For more information about this event, click here.
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Did You Know?
Did you know that you can create an endowed scholarship for a student?
In the College of Education, you not only have the opportunity to fund undergraduate students, but you can also specify that your resources go to help a student that is in a graduate program or earning their Ph.D. Many students are attending college part-time while maintaining full-time employment and a scholarship could offer the financial resources to make their time in school less stressful.
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For more detailed information on giving or endowing a scholarship, please contact Stephanie Douglas, director of development, at
To make your contribution online, please click here.
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