(Name-mce) ListServ Beth Harry to speak at New England NAME conference

[Bill Howe]

Beth Harry to speak at New England NAME conference



Beth Harry will be the featured keynote speaker at a free evening event at
the 12th Annual New England NAME Conference on Multicultural Education October
11, 2007 at  the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, Connecticut


Beth Harry is a Professor of special education in the Department of Teaching
and Learning at the University of Miami, Florida. Dr. Harry, a native of
Jamaica, entered the field of special education as a parent of a child with
cerebral palsy. Her research and teaching focus on the impact of special
education on families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Her
studies have included Puerto Rican, African American and a wide range of
other cultural groups. In 2002, Dr. Harry served as a member of the National
Academy of Sciences' panel to study the disproportionate placement of
minority students in special education. Her research on these topics have
been published in numerous books and articles, most recently, two books: Why
are so many minority students in special education? and Case Studies of
Minority Student Placement in Special Education. In 2003 she received a
Fulbright award to do research on Moroccan children's schooling in Spain,
where she was based at the University of Seville. She earned her Bachelors
and Masters degrees at the University of Toronto, Canada, and her Ph.D., at
Syracuse University.



Dr Harry is featured in the DVD -- Building Culturally Responsive
Relationships with Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities – released
by NAME this year. This third in a series of four multicultural training
videos was produced by Dr. Philip C. Chinn in cooperation with the Monarch
Center.  Copies are available though NAME at www.nameorg.org



Information on this conference and other NAME conferences is available at
http://www.nameorg.org/conferences.html




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Bill Howe
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JoIn me this summer in China - Multicultural Educators to China Summer 2007
Trip - http://billhowe.org/China2007.htm

Past-President
National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
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