Charles Ungerleider, Professor of the Sociology of Education in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia, is currently on leave in order to serve as the Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization for the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), an independent, not-for-profit organization established to improve the quality and availability of information about learning for all Canadians.

Ungerleider has written about a range of topics in education from assessment to xenophobia.  He is author of Failing Our Kids: How we are ruining our public schools, a critical examination of the state of public schooling in Canada, and numerous publications in scholarly, professional and popular media.  He has taught about the principles of teaching, the sociology of education, the social and organizational context of education in Canada, and educational governance and politics in Canada.

From November 1998 until June 2001, Ungerleider served as Deputy Minister of Education for the Province of British Columbia, and, prior to assuming responsibility as Deputy Minister, was Associate Dean for teacher education (1993-1998) in the Faculty of Education at The University of British Columbia.