2008 IES Research Conference

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) will hold its third annual research conference June 10-12, 2008, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., for IES grant and contract awardees. Organized around the theme Education Research: What's Now? What's Next?, the conference represents the broadest assemblage of grant and contract recipients conducting education research funded by IES. Last year's conference was attended by over 700 researchers. This year's conference features plenary presentations by IES Director Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Gary Taubes, an award-winning science writer whose current focus is on controversial science and the scientific tools and methodology needed to establish reliable knowledge in any field of inquiry. His latest book, Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (Knopf, 2007), examines how a hypothesis became dogma. Attendees can also look forward to 16 panel sessions, several hundred poster presentations, and many opportunities for dialogue and collaboration during the three-day conference.