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Below are a list of some of the hightlights of the Best Practices 2012 Conference:

Keynote Speaker:

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Pedro Noguera
Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University

Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University. Noguera is an urban sociologist whose scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. He holds faculty appointments in the departments of Teaching and Learning and Humanities and Social Sciences at the Steinhardt School of Culture...

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Conference Attendees:

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Book Discussion Roundtable & Workshop:

The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference –Ann Morning

What do Americans think “race” means? What determines one’s race—appearance, ancestry, genes, or culture? How do education, government, and business influence our views on race? To unravel these complex questions, Ann Morning takes a close look at how scientists are influencing ideas about race through teaching and textbooks. Drawing from in-depth interviews with biologists, anthropologists, and undergraduates, Morning explores different conceptions of race—finding for example, that while many sociologists now assume that race is a social invention or “construct,” anthropologists and biologists are far from such a consensus. She discusses powerful new genetic accounts of race, and considers how corporations and the government use scientific research—for example, in designing DNA ancestry tests or census questionnaires—in ways that often reinforce the idea that race is biologically determined. Widening the debate about race beyond the pages of scholarly journals, The Nature of Race dissects competing definitions in straightforward language to reveal the logic and assumptions underpinning today’s claims about human difference.

For additional information contact Conference Chairs:

Barbara Jones Jones Mercy College 555 Broadway Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 Phone: ( 914) 674-7204 Fax: (914) 674-7274 bjones@mercy.edu		Gladys Palma de Schrynemakers Long Island University One University Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: (718) 488-1001 Fax: (718) 780-4045 gschryne@liu.edu

Sean Partridge SUNY Potsdam CSTEP Office 216 Sisson Hall Potsdam, NY 13676 (315) 267-2346 Fax: (315) 267-3061 partrisc@potsdam.edu

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