The Resource Tell them we are rising : a memoir of faith in education, Ruth Wright Hayre and Alexis Moore ; foreword by Ed Bradley
Tell them we are rising : a memoir of faith in education, Ruth Wright Hayre and Alexis Moore ; foreword by Ed Bradley
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- Summary
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- Ruth Wright Hayre grew up in a close, genteel family that had prized learning since the days of the Civil War. At age ten, her grandfather, Richard Robert Wright, led by his remarkable mother, marched 200 miles to attend a school for emancipated slaves in a discarded railroad boxcar in Atlanta. When Union General Oliver Otis Howard came to the classroom and asked what message he should take back north, young Richard responded, in the famous exchange immortalized by poet
- John Greenleaf Whittier, "Sir, tell them we are rising." More than a century later, Ruth Wright Hayre, like her great-grandmother, would lead children on a life-changing journey to learning. After a distinguished career as a teacher, principal, administrator, college professor, and finally as a member and president of the Philadelphia Board of Education, Hayre's faith in the power of education inspired her to take on her greatest challenge - to create the "Tell Them We
- Are Rising" program. With that program she issued a challenge of her own to the sixth-graders in two schools in Philadelphia's grittiest neighborhoods: graduate from high school, and she would pay their college tuition. This is the story of the family and traditions that inspired that phenomenal gift, which took 116 boys and girls through six years of public school life on the wings of one woman's determination to make a difference in their lives
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xv, 206 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- "Tell them we are rising." Root and branch: The family tree
- My educational odyssey
- A Philadelphia story
- The climb to the boardroom
- Not what we give but what we share
- The leap of faith
- Getting to know you
- The mentors
- The pregnancy problem
- Mission accomplished
- The risers
- What I have learned
- A last word
- Index
- Isbn
- 9780471126799
- Label
- Tell them we are rising : a memoir of faith in education
- Title
- Tell them we are rising
- Title remainder
- a memoir of faith in education
- Statement of responsibility
- Ruth Wright Hayre and Alexis Moore ; foreword by Ed Bradley
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Ruth Wright Hayre grew up in a close, genteel family that had prized learning since the days of the Civil War. At age ten, her grandfather, Richard Robert Wright, led by his remarkable mother, marched 200 miles to attend a school for emancipated slaves in a discarded railroad boxcar in Atlanta. When Union General Oliver Otis Howard came to the classroom and asked what message he should take back north, young Richard responded, in the famous exchange immortalized by poet
- John Greenleaf Whittier, "Sir, tell them we are rising." More than a century later, Ruth Wright Hayre, like her great-grandmother, would lead children on a life-changing journey to learning. After a distinguished career as a teacher, principal, administrator, college professor, and finally as a member and president of the Philadelphia Board of Education, Hayre's faith in the power of education inspired her to take on her greatest challenge - to create the "Tell Them We
- Are Rising" program. With that program she issued a challenge of her own to the sixth-graders in two schools in Philadelphia's grittiest neighborhoods: graduate from high school, and she would pay their college tuition. This is the story of the family and traditions that inspired that phenomenal gift, which took 116 boys and girls through six years of public school life on the wings of one woman's determination to make a difference in their lives
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1910-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Hayre, Ruth Wright
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Moore, Alexis
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hayre, Ruth Wright
- African American women teachers
- Public schools
- Hayre, Ruth Wright
- African American women teachers
- Public schools
- Pennsylvania
- Label
- Tell them we are rising : a memoir of faith in education, Ruth Wright Hayre and Alexis Moore ; foreword by Ed Bradley
- Note
- Includes index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
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- text
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- Contents
- "Tell them we are rising." Root and branch: The family tree -- My educational odyssey -- A Philadelphia story -- The climb to the boardroom -- Not what we give but what we share -- The leap of faith -- Getting to know you -- The mentors -- The pregnancy problem -- Mission accomplished -- The risers -- What I have learned -- A last word -- Index
- Control code
- ocm36186850
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9780471126799
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97001492
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- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Tell them we are rising : a memoir of faith in education, Ruth Wright Hayre and Alexis Moore ; foreword by Ed Bradley
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- "Tell them we are rising." Root and branch: The family tree -- My educational odyssey -- A Philadelphia story -- The climb to the boardroom -- Not what we give but what we share -- The leap of faith -- Getting to know you -- The mentors -- The pregnancy problem -- Mission accomplished -- The risers -- What I have learned -- A last word -- Index
- Control code
- ocm36186850
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xv, 206 pages
- Isbn
- 9780471126799
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97001492
- Media category
- unmediated
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- rdamedia
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