Sonya Douglass Horsford

Scholarly Interests

Social and political contexts of leadership; politics of race in urban school systems; critical race theory; critical policy analysis; Black education in the post-Civil Rights Era

Selected Publications

Books

Horsford, S. D., Scott, J., & Anderson, G. (2019). The politics of education policy in an era of inequality: Possibilities for democratic schooling. New York: Routledge.

Horsford, S. D., & Tillman, L. C. (Eds.). (2014). Intersectional identities and educational leadership of Black women in the USA. Abingdon: Routledge.

Wilson, C. M., & Horsford, S. D. (Eds.). (2013). Advancing equity and achievement in America’s diverse schools: Inclusive theories, policies, and practices. New York: Routledge.

Horsford, S. D. (2011). Learning in a burning house: Educational inequality, ideology, and (dis)integration. New York: Teachers College Press. [2013 Critics’ Choice Award, American Educational Studies Association; 2nd printing].

Horsford, S. D. (Ed.) (2010). New perspectives in educational leadership: Exploring social, political, and community contexts and meaning. New York: Peter Lang.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Horsford, S. D. (in press, 2019). School integration in the New Jim Crow: Opportuity or oxymoron? Educational Policy. PEA Yearbook 2019.

Horsford, S. D. (2017). Making America’s schools great now: Reclaiming democracy and activist leadership under Trump. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 50(1).

Sampson, C., & Horsford, S. D. (2017). Putting the public back into public education: Community advocacy and education leadership under the Every Student Succeeds Act. Journal of School Leadership, 27(5), 725-754.

Horsford, S. D. (2017). A race to the top from the bottom of the well? The paradox of race in U.S. education reform. The Educational Forum, 81(2), 136-147.

Horsford, S. D., & Powell, K. (2016). Second Chances Academy: Alternative school or pathway to prison? Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 19(1), 18-27.

Horsford, S. D. (2016). Social justice for the advantaged: Freedom from racial equality post-Milliken. Teachers College Record, 118(3), 1-18.

Horsford, S. D., & D’Amico, D. (2015). The past as more than prologue: A call for historical research. International Journal of Educational Management, 29(7), 863-873.

Horsford, S. D., & Sampson, C. (2014). Promise Neighborhoods: The politics and promise of community capacity building as urban school reform. Urban Education, 49(8), 955-991.

Horsford, S. D. (2014). When race enters the room: Improving leadership and learning through racial literacy. Theory into Practice, 53(1), 123-130.

Horsford, S. D., Sampson, C., & Forletta, F. M. (2013). School resegregation in the Mississippi of the West: Community counternarratives on the return to neighborhood schools in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1968-1994. Teachers College Record, 115(11), 1-28.

Horsford, S. D. (2012). This bridge called my leadership: An essay on Black women as bridge leaders in education. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 21(5), 11-22.

Horsford, S. D., Grosland, T., & Gunn, K. M. (2011). Pedagogy of the personal and professional: Toward a framework for culturally relevant leadership. Journal of School Leadership, 21(4), 582-606.

Horsford, S. D. (2011). Vestiges of desegregation: Superintendent perspectives on inequality and (dis)integration in the post-Civil Rights Era. Urban Education, 46(1), 34-54.

Horsford, S. D. (2010). Mixed feelings about mixed schools: Superintendents on the complex legacy of school desegregation. Educational Administration Quarterly, 46(3), 287-321.

Horsford, S. D. (2010). Black superintendents on educating Black students in separate and unequal contexts. The Urban Review, 42(1), 58-79.

Horsford, S. D. (2009). From Negro student to Black superintendent: Counternarratives on segregation and desegregation. The Journal of Negro Education, 78(2), 172-187.

Rusch, E. A., & Horsford, S. D. (2009). Changing hearts and minds: The quest for open talk about race in educational leadership. International Journal of Educational Management, 23(4), 302-313.

Rusch, E. A., & Horsford, S. D. (2008). Unifying and integrating messy communities: Learning social justice in educational leadership classrooms. Teacher Development, 12(4), 353-367.

Horsford, S. D., & McKenzie, K. B. (2008). “Sometimes I feel like the problems started with desegregation”: Exploring Black superintendent perspectives on desegregation policy. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 21(5), 443-455.