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.

The complete list of schools by state appears below.

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.

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).

“China and the West in Historical Perspective,” 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).

FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers is chaired by David Eisenhower and Pulitzer prizewinning historian Walter A. McDougall.

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.

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.

Participating schools included:

Alabama
Mountain Brook High School, Birmingham
W. P. Davidson High School, Mobile

Arizona
Phoenix Country Day School, Paradise Valley

Colorado
Hulstrom Options School, Northglenn

Connecticut
Cheshire High School

Florida
Lake Brantley High School, Altamonte Springs Christopher Columbus High School, Miami

Georgia
Riverside Military Academy, Gainesville
Pepperell Middle School, Lindale
Sprayberry High School, Marietta

Indiana
Culver Academy
Northside Middle School, Columbus
Lawrence North High School, Indianapolis Signature School, Evansville Benton Central Junior-Senior High School, Oxford

Kentucky
John Hardin High School, Elizabethtown
duPont Manual High School, Louisville

Maryland
West Nottingham Academy, Colora
Elizabeth Seton High School, Bladensburg

Massachusetts
Billerica Memorial High School

Michigan
Greenhills School, Ann Arbor
Hillsdale College

New Hampshire
Nashua High School South

New Mexico
Santa Fe Preparatory School

New York
Queensbury High School

Oklahoma
Booker T. Washington High School, Tulsa

Pennsylvania
The Shawmont School, Philadelphia
Pennridge High School, Perkasie

South Carolina
Riverside Middle School, Greer

Tennessee
21st Century Academy, Chattanooga
Battle Ground Academy, Franklin
Center for Creative Arts, Chattanooga
Hixson High School
McCallie School, Chattanooga
Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin White Station High School, Memphis Ensworth High School, Nashville Sale Creek Middle High

Texas
Episcopal High School, Bellaire
St. Stephen’s Episcopal, Austin
Dwight D. Eisenhower High School, Houston

Vermont
Rutland High School

Wisconsin
Pulaski High School

AND

China
Beijing Normal University, Beijing

February 29, 2008