Educational opportunity policy center names new executive director

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) has hired a new executive director. JANICE JACKSON, a former deputy superintendent for the Boston Public Schools and a former assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, will join the center July 1.

According to an announcement in SCOPE’s newsletter, Jackson replaces former executive director CAROL CAMPBELL, who has relocated to Ontario, Canada, and has taken a position at the University of Toronto.

Jackson will work closely with SCOPE co-directors LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND and PRUDENCE CARTER to support the center’s mission, which is to foster research, policy and practice to advance high quality, high equity education systems.

SCOPE was founded in 2008 to address issues of educational quality and equality from early childhood through college. It is an affiliate of the Stanford University School of Education and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford.

Read the full announcement in the SCOPE newsletter.