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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 Mankiwicz, Jeffrey Lacker, Benjamin Bernanke and Nobel Laureate Vernon Smith.
Approximately 100 teachers from 27 states and four foreign countries attended the 2008 National AP Conference, held November 2-4, 2008 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Keynote speakers included 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. Marvin Goodfriend, Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University and Chairman, The Gailliot Center for Public Policy.
Click here for the 2008 Conference Program.
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