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Lorene Carey
Will the Stories We Tell Set Them Free?
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61:15 posted on 23-Feb-09 |
Lorene Cary’s first Young Adult book, FREE! , is a collection of non-fiction Underground Railroad stories as compelling as the history they chronicle (Third World Press/New City Press). Cary says that she believes these twelve stories of ingenious and daring escapes 'allow our 21st-century minds to imagine actively the inner lives of enslaved people – and put ourselves in their places, not with shame, but compassion and respect.'
The Price of A Child, an adult novel of the UGRR, was selected the inaugural One Book One Philadelphia selection in 2003, and read by 40,000 Philadelphians. The New York Times called the writer “a powerful storyteller, frankly sensual, mortally funny, gifted with an ear for the pounce [of] real speech,” and praised the Underground Railroad novel as “a generous, sardonic, full-blooded work of fiction.” (Knopf, 1995; Vintage 1996)
Cary’s first book, published by Knopf in 1991, was Black Ice, a memoir of her years first as a black female student, and then teacher, at St. Paul’s, an exclusive New England boarding school. Arnold Rampersad has dubbed it “...probably the most beautifully written and moving African-American autobiographical narrative since Maya Angelou’s celebrated I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.” Black Ice was chosen as a Notable Book for 1992 by the American Library Association.
Pride, a novel, (Nan A. Talese/ Doubleday, 1998; Anchor 1999), moves among the voices of four friends, says The New York Times Book Review , and “between the staccato directness of black slang and the more formal cadences of standard English....”
Lorene Cary was graduated from St. Paul’s School in 1974 and received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. She won a Thouron Fellowship for British-U.S. student exchange and studied at Sussex University. She has received Doctorates in Humane Letters from Colby College in Maine, Keene State College in New Hampshire, Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., and Arcadia University in Glenside, Pa.
In 1998 Lorene Cary founded Art Sanctuary, a unique non-profit lecture and performance series that brings black thinkers and artists to speak and perform at the Church of the Advocate, a National Historic Landmark Building in North Philadelphia; a diverse audience of 10,000 participates each year.
Currently a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a 1998 recipient of the Provost’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Cary has lectured throughout the U.S. She began writing as an apprentice at Time in 1980, then worked as an Associate Editor at TV Guide, served as Contributing Editor for Newsweek in 1993 and freelanced for such publications as Essence, O Magazine, and Mirabella .
All School of Education Videos
Preserving the Role of Public Education in Democratic Societies
Ken Zeichner
80:32
posted on 02-Mar-09
Zeicher is a research team member of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Study and is co-chair of the Consensus Panel on Research in Teacher Education of the American Educational Research Association.
Looking for Educational Equality: Immigrants, Migrants and the New Latino Diaspora
Kris D. Gutierrez
82:21
posted on 23-Feb-09
Kris Gutierrez is professor of social research methodology at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA.
Race, Desegration & American Public Schooling
James Anderson & William Trent
78:51
posted on 23-Feb-09
James Anderson and William Trent engage in a discussion on "Race, Desegregation and American Public Schooling" in Hendricks Chapel, moderated by School of Education Dean Douglas Biklen.
Urban Schools, Diverse Communities
Sonia Neito
posted on 23-Feb-09
Learning from caring teachers.
Context Matters: How Urban Schools Can Respond to and Draw Resources from the Communities They Serve
Pedro Noguera
83:52
posted on 23-Feb-09
Noguera’s interests include race and schooling, Immigration/migration, parents and schools, leadership and school reform, student achievement, schools and the urban environment, education and economic and social development and education abroad.
The Power of Poetry
Nikki Grimes
52:35
posted on 20-Feb-09
Grimes began composing verse at the age of six and has been writing ever since. An accomplished and widely anthologized poet of both children's and adult verse, Grimes has conducted poetry readings and lectures at international schools in Russia, China, Sweden and Tanzania; short-term mission projects have taken her to such trouble spots as Haiti.
Standardized Parent Conferencing Model
Prof. Benjamin Dotger
07:41
posted on 20-Feb-09
The Standardized Parent Conferencing Model (SPCM), is based on a strategy used in medical schools. Actors pretend to have various symptoms, and medical school students diagnose them.