Andrew Fox grew up in a family of scientists and scholars in the Washington, D.C. area. His many interests won him recognition in high school. His writing was entered in the Congressional Record, he conducted biological research at the National Institutes of Health, and he composed a wide variety of music. He was chosen by the United States federal government as the best male student in Virginia and awarded a Presidential Scholarship.
Attending Harvard College, he majored successively in Psychology, History, and History and Science, finally settling on Philosophy and graduating cum laude in general studies, i.e. overall in all his fields.
After college, Fox co-founded a software-development firm that grew to eight employees, for which he created an artificial-intelligence computer language. After three years, he transferred the business to his partners to study musical composition full-time.
Fox entered the University of California at Berkeley and earned an M.A. and Ph.D. in music. While earning his doctorate, he taught music and computer science at the university as well as SAT, GMAT, and GRE preparation for Stanley Kaplan.
Dr. Fox accepted a position as music professor at the University of Indianapolis, tutoring mathematics privately on the side. During this period he also became interested in chess and began to study it seriously. Now an experienced tournament player and instructor, he currently has an international rating of approximately 1700. Dr. Fox also worked as a writer, ghost-writing magazine pieces, co-authoring studies, designing contracts, and collaborating on screenplays.
After moving to Manhattan for family reasons, Dr. Fox joined the New York City Teaching Fellows and earned an M.S. Ed. in mathematics at the City University of New York.
Dr. Fox taught for two years at disadvantaged schools in the Bronx (he now has a black belt in classroom management). He then took a position at NEST+m High School, a gifted school in lower Manhattan, where he remained for six academic years. During this period he taught the full math curriculum, from basic algebra to advanced calculus; French; chess as a classroom subject; music theory; chorus; and special gifted studies. Dr. Fox developed special enrichment classes in college-level group theory and number theory for secondary-school students. He also tutored students in a variety of fields ranging from history to physics. NEST+m is a K-12 school, and Dr. Fox gained much experience teaching lower-school and middle-school students as well as high-school students.
In 2013 Dr. Fox founded Andrew Fox Tutors, LLC.
Dr. Fox has one son, who attended P.S. 87, the Delta Program, Bronx Science, and Oberlin College. His son currently works as a hydrologist in Wyoming.
About founder Andrew Fox