Dr. Jerry Johnson is the Phoebe Moore Dail Distinguished Professor in Rural Education at East Carolina University. The 2017 recipient of the Stanley A. Brzezinski Memorial Rural Education Research Award from the National Rural Education Association, he is the author of more than 70 publications on rural education, community schools, and place-based learning. Johnson’s work has been supported by more than $12 million in external funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences and Office of English Language Acquisition, state departments of education, private foundations, and local school districts.
