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Jean Johnson
Jean Johnson is Executive Vice President of Public Agenda and head of its Education Insights division which focus on public education reform. As a member of Public Agenda’s senior staff, she has written or co-written major Public Agenda reports on education, families, religion, race relations, civility, and retirement. With Public Agenda colleague Scott Bittle, she is the author of "Where Does the Money Go? Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis” published in 2008 by HarperCollins. The New York Times called the book "an informative primer" that manages to be both "entertaining and irreverent" and "neither politically partisan nor alarmist.”
Among her other recent publications are SqueezePlay: How Parents and the Public Look at Higher Education Today (2007) and A Mission of the Heart: What Does It Take to Transform a School? (2008). She has also written for USA Today, The Huffington Post, and Education Week. Ms. Johnson was instrumental in the design and development of PublicAgenda.org, the organization’s Webby-nominated public policy web site. She regularly represents Public Agenda in the media and has appeared on CNN, The Today Show, and Bill Moyers Journal.
Prior to joining Public Agenda in 1980, Ms. Johnson was Resource Director for Action for Children's Television in Boston. She is currently an advisor to The Ad Council and serves on the board of directors of National Issues Forums, a national citizen engagement organization.
In addition to her public policy work, Ms. Johnson is a director of Sugal Records, a small, New York-based classical music recording company. Ms. Johnson graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and holds master's degrees from Brown University and Simmons College.
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