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National AP Economics Teachers Conference

Every other year since 1997, Powell has offered this dynamic program, bringing teachers the tools they need to improve student performances on Advanced Placement Microeconomics and Macroeconomics exams. Since 1999, this conference has been co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Educators attending the AP Conference leave armed with strategies to become more effective economic educators. This national conference also offers a forum for networking with other AP teachers from across the country, as well as outstanding keynote speakers. Keynote speakers at the past conferences have included Al Broaddus, Edward Gramlich, Gregory Mankiw, Jeffrey Lacker, Benjamin Bernanke and Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.

2008 CONFERENCE DETAILS
Date: November 2-4, 2008 (Note that November 4 is Election Day. We encourage all participants to vote by absentee ballot prior to the conference)
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, 701 East Byrd Street, Richmond, VA 23219
Cost: $125.00 (Checks payable to POWELL CENTER FOR ECONOMIC LITERACY)
Registration Deadline: October 1, 2008

This biennial national conference offers a forum for networking with other AP Economics teachers from across the country, updates on topics of interest, demonstrations of effective teaching techniques, as well as outstanding keynote speakers.

Keynote speakers will include Tim Harford, Columnist with Financial Times and best-selling author of The Undercover Economist and The Logic of Life; Federal Reserve Board Governor Kevin Warsh, appointed to the Board in 2006 and formerly Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Executive Secretary of the National Economic Council from 2002 until February 2006; and Dr. J. Alfred Broaddus, Past President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Click here to register.

Click here for the 2008 Conference Program.