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Obama, Ayers, And Education Reform
JustOneMinute — ... picks up the story of Obama's long and concealed association with unrepentant Weatherman Bill Ayers and their mutual efforts on education reform. This piece on Ayers' current radical views is helpful. Posted by Tom Maguire on August 17, 2008 | ...

"Why would Barack Obama be friends with someone who bombed the Capitol and is proud of it?"
Classical Values — ... first teamed up on education reform in 1987. 2. Set aside the fact that Obama was a mere lad when Ayers was setting bombs; today Ayers is an unreconstructed hard-left radical with ...

Why Ayers matters
neo-neocon — ... minimizing their true relationship. Theirs was not only a closer connection than being mere neighbors, or serving on a random board together, or that Ayers supported Obama in his race for State Senate. It is possible that they may have also been in some sort of basic agreement on educational goals. Well, isn’t everyone? Don’t we all want to make education better, and to reach more children? Well, it depends what you mean by “better.” This is what Ayers means: As Ayers puts it in one of his course descriptions, ...

Obama and the "morally uniform inquisition" of secular zealots
sisu — ... Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students. ...

McCain & Keating, Obama & Ayers
Patterico's Pontifications — ... on the important issue of public education, which funded “awful” projects and “had little impact on student outcomes.”  Given that Obama’s work on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was Obama’s biggest executive experience and biggest attempt at reform, the releationship — and the failure of the project — should be newsworthy even if Ayers had not been involved in bombing the Pentagon.  That Ayers would like to transform the public schools into revolutionary indoctrination centers and ...

Why Ayers Still Matters
The American Spectator — ... left that line of inquiry to his running mate. WHEN AYERS WAS ELECTED this past March to a leadership role in the nation's largest organization of education school professors and researchers, Sol Stern was one of the few journalists who sprinted for the bell tower to warn the rest of us about the Hyde Park drifter coming to paint the curriculum red. "Ayers is widely regarded as a member in good standing of the city's civic establishment, not an unrepentant domestic terrorist," Stern wrote . "But Obama and his critics are arguing about the wrong moral question. The more ...

From bomber to ’school reformer’
Joanne Jacobs — ... in previous articles in City Journal, Ayers’s school reform agenda focuses almost exclusively on the idea of teaching for “social justice” in the classroom. This has nothing to do with the social-justice ideals of the Sermon on the Mount or Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Rather, Ayers and his education school comrades are explicit about the need to indoctrinate public school children with the belief that America is a racist, militarist country and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive. Barack Obama and Ayers ...

The AP Lies for William Ayers
The Sundries Shack — ... Ayers education program, which Barack Obama has endorsed and helped to push, molds young teachers to “be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, a teacher teaching for social justice and liberation”. ...

Sol Stern On Bill Ayers
JustOneMinute — ... at Ayers' goal of teaching for social justice. Mr.Stern also penned this on Obama's problem with Ayers. The mainstream media will be resolute in ignoring this for the next three weeks. Set aside that most of them rooting for Obama; at this point, any reporter pressing on Ayers is risking the ire of the Obama campaign and may diminish his/her access to the likely next President and his circle. Posted by Tom Maguire on October 16, 2008 | ...

Getting the 'Ayers Issue' Straight
American Thinker — ... , "We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution . . . I look forward to seeing how he and all of you continue to overcome the failings of capitalist education."Sol Stern observes that Ayers "still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism . . . Ayers now works to indoctrinate America's future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students." In the Ayers social justice ...

The Brainwashing Bunch
American Thinker — Ayers is not merely a professor of education: he exercises far greater power as president of the American Educational Research Association and as someone who works to publish a line of textbooks to be used in graduate schools of education. His methods and beliefs have been used to "teach the teachers", who will then promote and propagate his views in classrooms across our nation. He is, as Sol Stern, wrote a "radical educator with real influence" -- and that was written before his friend Barack Obama became President.

EDUCATION IS A WEAPON
Dr. Sanity — “Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” - Joseph Stalin If you thought I was joking or too extreme in my discussions of the ongoing corruption of k-12 education; and how all the leftist "educational experts" like Bill Ayers intend to destroy the minds of your children in the era of hopenchange, then you need to read this. All of it. What is happening in Minnesota is the evolution of education into leftist political indoctrination. The health of our ...