Robert Gordon is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focuses on education and domestic policy. While on leave from the Center in 2006 and 2007, Dr. Gordon served as a senior advisor to the chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, leading an overhaul of the city’s multi-billion dollar school budgeting system and developing new human capital initiatives. Prior to joining American Progress in 2005, Dr. Gordon was domestic policy director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. He previously worked for Senator John Edwards (D-NC) as Judiciary Committee counsel, legislative director, and policy director on his first presidential campaign. Earlier in his career, Dr. Gordon was a law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Skadden Fellow at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City, where he represented children in abuse and neglect proceedings. Dr. Gordon also served in the Clinton White House as an aide to the National Economic Council and the Office of National Service, helping craft the legislation creating AmeriCorps. Dr. Gordon writes frequently about education, health, regulatory, and anti-poverty policy. His work has been cited in the nation's major newspapers and published in The New Republic, Slate, the American Prospect, Washington Monthly, Education Next, and Education Week. Dr. Gordon also has been a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project, and he serves as a foundation consultant and a board member for the Music National Service Initiative. Dr. Gordon graduated from Harvard College with highest honors and from Yale Law School.