Paul C. Gorski is an Associate Professor of Integrative Studies in New Century College at George Mason University, where he teaches in the Social Justice concentration and the Education concentration. He is the founder of EdChange and the Multicultural Pavilion, a Web site that has won more than ten awards internationally for its contribution to multicultural education scholarship and practice (http://www.edchange.org/multicultural). Paul is the author of Multicultural Education and the Internet: Intersections and Integrations (McGraw-Hill) and coeditor (with Roberta Ahlquist and Theresa Montaño) of Assault on Kids: How Hyper-accountability, Corporatization, Deficit Ideologies, and Ruby Payne Are Destroying Our Schools (Peter Lang). He has written more than 50 articles and chapters on topics such as economically just schooling, deficit ideology, animal rights, and multicultural teacher education for publications including Intercultural Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, The Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Educational Leadership, and Teaching and Teacher Education. He serves on the boards of directors of the International Association for Intercultural Education and the Institute for Humane Education. He lives in Kensington, Maryland, cats, Unity, and Buster.
