Early Education Matters: Connecting High-Quality Pre-K to K-3 Classrooms
The benefits of pre-K programs can disappear if they are not connected to equally high-quality instruction in the K-3 years.
Gordon MacInnes
Gordon MacInnes served as the President of NJPP from 2012 to 2018, leading the organization’s efforts to advance economic justice and shared prosperity in the Garden State. Having stepped down as NJPP's chief executive at the end of 2018, Gordon remains with the organization as a Senior Distinguished Fellow to continue researching New Jersey's early education system.
Gordon’s research interests include: state finances, sound investments in economic assets, education and immigration.
Before joining NJPP in April 2012, Gordon had a long track record of success in New Jersey’s worlds of policy, nonprofits, and politics. He has served in both the Assembly and the Senate; led New Jersey Network, the Fund for New Jersey, and Citizens for Better Schools; and served as assistant education commissioner from 2002 to 2007. He was a long-time fellow at The Century Foundation.
Gordon, a graduate of Occidental College and of the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, is also a trustee of Occidental College and a former member of the Rutgers Board of Governors.