Anthony Gary Dworkin, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, co-founder of the Sociology of Education Research Group (SERG), and former chair of the Department of Sociology, The University of Houston, USA. Currently, he is Immediate Past-President of Research Committee 04 (Sociology of Education) of the International Sociological Association. He served on the Council of the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association and as President of the Southwestern Sociological Association. His publications include 12 books and numerous articles on teacher burnout, student dropout behavior, minority–majority relations, gender roles, and on school accountability. His publications on the No Child Left Behind Act appeared in the journal Sociology of Education, in a special issue of the International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, and in several chapters on the political dimensions of school accountability. Along with his colleagues on the RC04 board he has published two articles on the current state of Sociology of Education in the ISA journal, Sociopedia. He wrote on the effects of retention-in-grade (with Jon Lorence, published by The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC). He and Rosalind J. Dworkin published three editions of The Minority Report (third edition by Wadsworth, 1999), a book on race, ethnic, and gender relations. Along with Laurence J. Saha of the Australian National University, Dworkin edited The International Handbook of Research on Teachers and Teaching (published by Springer in 2009). He coedited two editions of the Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequality in Education with Peter A. J. Stevens of the University of Ghent in 2014 and 2019. His e-mail address is gdworkin@central.uh.edu.