Ira Shor (born June 2, 1945) is a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he teaches composition and rhetoric.

[1] He is also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

[2] Shor grew up in the working class area in the South Bronx of New York City.

Shor has stated that coming from a working-class area had a powerful influence on his thinking, politics and feelings.

In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy.