April 8, 2010
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Nationally renowned urban-education expert Steve Perry, author of Man Up! Nobody is Coming to Save Us and Raggedy Schools: The Untold Truth, will speak at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Tuesday, April 27 from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Alys Stephens Center, 1200 10th Ave. South. Admission is free to the public. Call 205-934-7975 for more details.
Perry is a CNN education contributor and founder and principal of the Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, Conn. For his lecture, Perry will encourage educators, communities and parents to take responsibility and work together to raise achievement in urban schools.
The inner-city, year-round, college-preparatory school has received national attention for its high graduation rates and rigorous curriculum. Students who graduate receive a high-school diploma and up to 60 college credits for their coursework. According to the school's Web site, 100 percent of the graduating students have gone on to college in the past six years.
Through his work as a principal and urban education advocate, Perry, who has a doctorate from the University of Hartford, has received several state and regional awards for causes ranging from promoting educational access to low-income students to fighting all forms of sexual violence.
Perry's lecture is sponsored by the UAB School of Medicine's Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs; UAB Lecture Series; UAB Black Student Awareness Committee; UAB African-American Studies Program; UAB Center for Urban Affairs; Sixth Avenue Baptist Church; Office for Faculty Development; UAB Office of Student Involvement, Diversity Programs; Office of the Provost; UAB Office of Equity and Diversity; and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. Kappa Kappa Chapter.
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