Michael Apple is John Bascom Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and Professor of Educational Policy Studies at the Institute of Education, University of London, England. He has worked with governments, researchers, trade unions, political movements, and dissident groups in Latin America and many other parts of the world to build more critically democratic research, policies, and practices in education. His recent books include Educating the “Right” Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality (2006), The Subaltern Speak: Curriculum, Power, and Educational Struggles (2006), The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Education (2009), and *Global Crises, Social Justice, and Education* (2010).