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Jim Abbot is a classicist who taught in higher and secondary education for more than three decades. He holds doctoral, master's, and bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Princeton University, respectively. Abbot has also been a longtime advocate for various environmental causes in his native Georgia. Father to two sons, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York. ...more

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