Wayne Au is an associate professor in the School of Educational Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. A former public high school teacher and long-time editor for the social justice teaching magazine Rethinking Schools, his work focuses broadly on critical education policy, theory, and practice—with emphases on critiquing corporate education reform, examining the racial politics of high-stakes testing and curriculum, and supporting local and national educational justice movements. Most recently he edited Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice and co-edited Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State, and he has been published in Teachers College Record and Educational Researcher, among other journals.
