Teachers from three public schools and one private school in Chattanooga were among the 45 educators from 21 states accepted by The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center for a conference in Chattanooga last weekend, March 1-2. “China’s Encounter with the West” was held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in association with the Asia Program of The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.<\/p>\n
The complete list of schools by state appears below.<\/p>\n
The weekend program was part of a series of history institutes for teachers, largely high school teachers, designed to enrich their knowledge of world affairs and to stimulate the development of curriculum based on cutting edge scholarship.<\/p>\n
Speakers were drawn from among the nation’s top experts on China: political scientist Edward Friedman (University of Wisconsin); economic historian Thomas Rawski (University of Pittsburgh); strategist Andrew Wilson (US Naval War College); historian Nancy Bernkopf Tucker (Georgetown University); law professor Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania); and anthropologist Zibin Guo (The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga).<\/p>\n
\u201cChina and the West in Historical Perspective,\u201d the keynote address, was open to the public and it was presented on Saturday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. in the Finley Lecture Hall of the Choo Choo Hotel by Warren I. Cohen, Distinguished University Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Senior Scholar in the Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Cohen was the 2002 Edwin Reischauer lecturer at Harvard University. His lectures were later published in the book, The Asian American Century (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).<\/p>\n
FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers is chaired by David Eisenhower and Pulitzer prizewinning historian Walter A. McDougall.<\/p>\n
FPRI’s Wachman Center is directed by Alan Luxenberg. The Wachman Center is devoted to fostering civic and international literacy in the community and in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Founded in 1955, FPRI is one of the nation’s oldest think tanks. It is headed by Dr. Harvey Sicherman, a former aide to three U.S. secretaries of state.<\/p>\n
Participating schools included:<\/p>\n
Alabama
\nMountain Brook High School, Birmingham
\nW. P. Davidson High School, Mobile<\/p>\n
Arizona
\nPhoenix Country Day School, Paradise Valley<\/p>\n
Colorado
\nHulstrom Options School, Northglenn<\/p>\n
Connecticut
\nCheshire High School<\/p>\n
Florida
\nLake Brantley High School, Altamonte Springs Christopher Columbus High School, Miami<\/p>\n
Georgia
\nRiverside Military Academy, Gainesville
\nPepperell Middle School, Lindale
\nSprayberry High School, Marietta<\/p>\n
Indiana
\nCulver Academy
\nNorthside Middle School, Columbus
\nLawrence North High School, Indianapolis Signature School, Evansville Benton Central Junior-Senior High School, Oxford<\/p>\n
Kentucky
\nJohn Hardin High School, Elizabethtown
\nduPont Manual High School, Louisville<\/p>\n
Maryland
\nWest Nottingham Academy, Colora
\nElizabeth Seton High School, Bladensburg<\/p>\n
Massachusetts
\nBillerica Memorial High School<\/p>\n
Michigan
\nGreenhills School, Ann Arbor
\nHillsdale College<\/p>\n
New Hampshire
\nNashua High School South<\/p>\n
New Mexico
\nSanta Fe Preparatory School<\/p>\n
New York
\nQueensbury High School<\/p>\n
Oklahoma
\nBooker T. Washington High School, Tulsa<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania
\nThe Shawmont School, Philadelphia
\nPennridge High School, Perkasie<\/p>\n
South Carolina
\nRiverside Middle School, Greer<\/p>\n
Tennessee
\n21st Century Academy, Chattanooga
\nBattle Ground Academy, Franklin
\nCenter for Creative Arts, Chattanooga
\nHixson High School
\nMcCallie School, Chattanooga
\nVolunteer State Community College, Gallatin White Station High School, Memphis Ensworth High School, Nashville Sale Creek Middle High<\/p>\n
Texas
\nEpiscopal High School, Bellaire
\nSt. Stephen’s Episcopal, Austin
\nDwight D. Eisenhower High School, Houston<\/p>\n
Vermont
\nRutland High School<\/p>\n
Wisconsin
\nPulaski High School<\/p>\n
AND<\/p>\n
China
\nBeijing Normal University, Beijing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Teachers from three public schools and one private school in Chattanooga were among the 45 educators from 21 states accepted by The Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Wachman Center for a conference in Chattanooga last weekend, March 1-2. “China’s Encounter with the West” was held at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Hotel in association with the Asia… <\/p>\n