Tenth Annual
NATIONAL EDUCATION POLICY INSTITUTE
April 13-15, 2008
You
are invited to register for the Tenth Annual National Education
Policy Institute, sponsored by the National Alliance of Black School
Educators (NABSE). Space is limited. Register now to join other
policy-level educators, local school and central office administrators,
superintendents, school board members, federal and state education
officials, community leaders, businesses, teachers, parents and
all those concerned about improving educational opportunities for
the African American child.
Speaker's Roster
Donna Brazile is Founder and Managing Director
of Brazile and Associates, LLC. Brazile, Chair of the Democratic
National Committee's Voting Rights Institute (VRI) and an Adjunct
Professor at Georgetown University, is a senior political strategist
and former Campaign Manager for Gore-Lieberman 2000 - the first
African American to lead a major presidential campaign…More
Gail Clark Dickson joined
ASCD in 2001. As a director for Constituent Partnerships, Gail
works closely with ASCD's constituents in providing an array of
consulting services regarding organizational management, governance,
strategic planning, board development, and education issues. More…
Dr. Michael
E. Glascoe joined the Paterson Public School system as State
District Superintendent in July, 2005. As Paterson's twenty-fifth
Superintendent of schools, he oversees the third largest and most
culturally diverse district in New Jersey, with 25,000 students
attending over 50 city schools. More…
Professor
John A. Powell is a nationally recognized authority in the
areas of civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating to race,
poverty, and the law. He teaches civil rights law, property law
and jurisprudence and was recently appointed the Earl R. Larson
Chair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University
of Minnesota Law School. He is founder and Executive Director of
the Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP), which is located at
the University of Minnesota Law School. More…
Monty
Neill, Ed.D., is currently Director of the National Center
for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest). He has initiated national
and state coalitions of education, civil rights, religious and
parent organizations to work toward fundamental change in the assessment
of students and in accountability. More…
Bernice Stafford, Retired
Vice President of School Strategies and Evaluation at PLATO Learning,
Inc., was a Lightspan, Inc., co-founder. She moved to PLATO in
November 2003 when Lightspan was acquired. More…
Larry Leverett was
Superintendent of Plainfield Public Schools in New Jersey prior
to becoming Superintendent in Greenwich. He also served as Assistant
Commissioner and Director of Urban Education in the New Jersey
Department of Education, where he was responsible for implementing
the Quality Education Act of 1991. More…
Representative
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. began service
in the United States House of Representatives on December 12, 1995.
He is the 91st African American ever elected to Congress. Representative
Jackson currently sits on the House Appropriations Committee, serving
as the 5th ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education as well as the 2nd ranking Democrat
on the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and
Related …More
Derek Black is an Assistant Professor
of Law at Howard University School of Law, where he teaches Education
Law, Social Justice Lawyering, and Torts. He has also taught Civil
Procedure at Howard and Legal Rhetoric as an adjunct Professor
at American University Washington College of Law. He is the author
of numerous law review articles…. More
Donna Christian is President of the Center for
Applied Linguistics (CAL) in Washington, DC. She
has degrees in mathematics (B.S., St. Lawrence University), applied
linguistics and sociolinguistics (M.S. and Ph.D., Georgetown University)….More
