George Wood is the executive director of the Forum for Education and Democracy, and for sixteen years has served as principal of Federal Hocking High School—a rural school in Appalachian Ohio that has been recognized as a Coalition of Essential Schools Mentor School, a First Amendment School, and as one of “America’s 100 Best” by Readers’ Digest. Wood’s thirty-year career in public education includes work as a classroom teacher, school board member, professor of education, and school principal. He is the founding director of Wildwood Secondary School in Los Angeles, and the author of Governor Ted Strickland’s (OH) K–12 education transition paper as well as the books Schools That Work and Time to Learn. In addition, Wood is the coeditor of Many Children Left Behind, which he edited with Deborah Meier.