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to Speak at ENF Conference 
For the second year in a row, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory will offer a Perspectives Forum at its annual Education Now and in the Future Conference (ENF), October 29-30, in Portland, Oregon. Last year's forum addressed both sides of the standards debate, allowing participants to consider the arguments raised by such well-known speakers as Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and The Case Against Standardized Testing, and Dr. Sam Stringfield, researcher at Johns Hopkins University. The goal of the Perspectives Forum, says conference organizer Kate Warziniack, "is to give educators enough firsthand information to allow them to draw their own conclusions. It is important to realize that NWREL does not endorse nor discount any of the presented opinions, but we do feel it is important for Northwest educators to have an increased awareness and good information." This year, the Perspectives Forum will include the participation of Dr. Thomas Armstrong, renowned researcher whose work has focused on multiple intelligences and how they can be strategically applied to classroom instruction. Dr. Armstrong is an award-winning author and speaker with 27 years of teaching experience from the primary through the doctoral level. He is the author of nine books, including Multiple Intelligences in the Classroom, In Their Own Way, 7 Kinds of Smart, The Myth of the A.D.D. Child, and Awakening Genius in the Classroom. Dr. Armstrong makes frequent TV and radio appearances, and his articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, and other national publications. Other featured speakers will be Dr. Joseph Johnson, the new director of the U.S. Department of Education's Compensatory Education Programs; Meredith Maran, author of the best-selling book Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School, a Glimpse Into the Heart of a Nation; and Dr. Bruce Biddle, a psychology and sociology professor at University of Missouri and coauthor of The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools. Additional conference details and scholarship opportunities can be found at the conference Web site (www.nwrel.org/enf).
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