For my biography, see www.paulshaker.comPaul Shaker is a career educator who has served as teacher, teacher educator, and dean in five of the United States, in Asia, and in Canada at Simon Fraser University of British Columbia where he holds the rank of professor emeritus. An alumnus of Ohio State, Shaker has sought to advance the progressive legacy in public schools and higher education through scholarship, leadership and media activism. He has developed and directed independently funded projects such as Friends of Simon, an outreach to immigrant and aboriginal children that provides university students as after school tutors. Shaker also hosts Your Education Matters, a television program widely cablecast in British Columbia that is a venue for qualified educators to speak on a range of education topics (see www.youreducationmatters.ca)See a new review of Reclaiming Education for Democracy at Phi Beta Kappa's The Key Reporter: http://www.pbk.org/userfiles/file/Key%20Reporter/TKR%201%202010%281%29.pdf