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8th Annual Quality Education Conference

Exploring New Horizons for Equal Educational Opportunity

June 11-12, 2008

SEIU Building, at Dupont Circle, NW, Washington, DC

Speakers and Presenters

Keynote Address

Luncheon Address

Dr. John H. Jackson
President & CEO
The Schott Foundation
for Public Education

The Hon. John M. Greaney
Associate Justice
Massachusetts Supreme
Judicial Court

Dr. Jackson leads The Schott Foundation’s efforts to ensure a high quality public education for all students regardless of race or gender. Dr. Jackson previously spent seven years in leadership positions at the NAACP, as National Director of Education and then as Chief Policy Officer.

Dr. Jackson has also been an Adjunct Professor of Race, Gender, and Public Policy, and was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve in his administration as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education.

Justice Greaney signed on to the majority opinion in McDuffy v. Sec'y of the Executive Office of Educ., 415 Mass. 545 (1993), and filed a dissenting opinion in Hancock v. Driscoll, 443 Mass. 428 (2005).

Justice Greaney became the presiding judge of the Hampden County Housing Court in 1974. He later served as an Associate Justice and then Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, and assumed his present position as an Associate Justice in 1989.

Justice Greaney also lectures and writes extensively for legal and judicial education programs, and has served as Chair of the Appellate Judges Conference of the American Bar Association.

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