A Case Study of the Educational Reform Efforts of Former Mississippi Governor William F. Winter
Author | : James K. Hawkins |
Publisher | : Universal-Publishers |
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Release | : 2010-03-11 |
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ISBN | : 1599423111 |
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Author | : James K. Hawkins |
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Release | : 2010-03-11 |
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ISBN | : 1599423111 |
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While serving as governor of Mississippi from 1980 until 1984, William F. Winter envisioned education as a key to moving Mississippi away from poverty. He championed educational reform as the means for improving schools with low student achievement. From the beginning of his tenure, Winter?s goal was to improve K-12 education by implementing three needed improvements: public kindergarten, compulsory attendance, and a lay board of education. During the first two years of his administration, Winter struggled to gain support from within the legislative body itself. Mores of Mississippi, which relegated African Americans to a lesser role of social status, were difficult to overcome without causing a great deal of social upheaval. Winter?s goal of educational reform was inclusive and not just aimed at the Whites of Mississippi. This necessitated carefully calculated planning. It was not until a controversial ending to the 1982 regular session that Winter began to explore options of calling a special session and promoting the goals for education to the constituents of the legislators. Through a series of nine public forums that were carefully crafted to explore the issues and spotlight the legislators for that particular venue, Winter and his band of young supporters, called the?Boys of Spring?, were able to bring about a paradigm shift in attitudes and beliefs. The focus of this study is to examine Winter?s leadership style, relate the story of reform, and highlight one man?s dream for his state. Winter was a master at surrounding himself with a high quality and high energy staff, designing a plan for success, and knowing what changes needed to be made and how to bring them about effectively. Specifically, this study will highlight hard work with purpose. It will also illustrate that those closest to a problem or issue should always be part of the solution to the problem, and finally, the study will show how a leader is only as good as the people with whom he or she sur.
Author | : James Klee Hawkins |
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Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2007 |
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ISBN | : 9781109941142 |
Specifically, this study will highlight hard work with purpose. It will also illustrate that those closest to a problem or issue should always be part of the solution to the problem, and finally, the study will show how a leader is only as good as the people with whom he or she surrounds himself/herself, with. The efforts that resulted in this study could and should be used to solve other problems of this society, especially those related to education.
Author | : Charles C. Bolton |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617037877 |
The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation
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Total Pages | : 478 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
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Includes section "Book reviews".
Author | : Charles C. Bolton |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617037885 |
For more than six decades, William F. Winter (1923–2020) was one of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. His political career spanned the 1940s through the early 1980s, from his initial foray into Mississippi politics as James Eastland's driver during his 1942 campaign for the United States Senate, as state legislator, as state tax collector, as state treasurer, and as lieutenant governor. Winter served as governor of the state of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. A voice of reason and compromise during the tumultuous civil rights battles, Winter represented the earliest embodiment of the white moderate politicians who emerged throughout the “New South.” His leadership played a pivotal role in ushering in the New Mississippi—a society that moved beyond the racial caste system that had defined life in the state for almost a century after emancipation. In many ways, Winter's story over nine decades was also the story of the evolution of Mississippi in the second half of the twentieth century. Winter remained active in public life after retiring from politics following an unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign against Thad Cochran in 1984. He worked with a variety of organizations to champion issues that were central to his vision of how to advance the interests of his native state and the South as a whole. Improving the economy, upgrading the educational system, and facilitating racial reconciliation were goals he pursued with passion. The first biography of this pivotal figure, William F. Winter and the New Mississippi traces his life and influences from boyhood days in Grenada County, through his service in World War II, and through his long career serving Mississippi.
Author | : William F. Winter |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-08-22 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
ISBN | : 9781496814821 |
Speeches from one of Mississippi's best known and most progressive public servants
Author | : Richard P. Nathan |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780231079631 |
With the enactment of the Family Support Act of 1988, every state is now required to implement a workfare program. Workfare is designed to supplement and ultimately replace welfare with job training programs. Nathan examines the roles of job training, job placement, education, and child care services as a route to transforming welfare payment programs into systems that stress jobs and services for welfare families.