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May 4, 2015 · What Bill Ayers would have in the classroom extends the 1960s agenda of smashing monogamy, ending the bourgeois family and its values, destroying the work ethic, patriotism. So what we have is kids indoctrinated with lessons about the police—the 1960s narrative about the “pigs”—fatherless, rootless, joining gangs, and looting in the ...
- Mark Tapson
William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired), founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, taught courses in interpretive and qualitative research, oral history, creative non-fiction, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament.
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Bill Ayers. William Charles Ayers ( / ɛərz /; born December 26, 1944) [1] is an American retired professor and former militant organizer. In 1969, Ayers co-founded the far-left militant organization the Weather Underground, a revolutionary group that sought to overthrow what they viewed as American imperialism. [2]
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- Founder of the Weather Underground, Urban educational reform
Jan 15, 2012 · by The Editors. Bill Ayers was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago until 2010, and he has published several books on pedagogy, including Teaching Toward Freedom (2010) and To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher (2001). Before becoming a teacher, he was best known for his antiwar and civil rights activism in the Sixties ...
University of Illinois at Chicago. William Charles "Bill" Ayers (born December 26, 1944) [1] is an American elementary education theorist. He is a former head of the Weather Underground. Ayers is known for speaking out against the Vietnam War in the 1960s. He is also known for his current work in trying to help make learning and teaching better ...
- William Charles Ayers, December 26, 1944 (age 78), Glen Ellyn, Illinois, U.S.
- Bernardine Dohrn
- Founder of the Weather Underground, Urban educational reform
“teach-ins,” circulating petitions, and knocking on doors to engage in “dialogue.” Ayers offers himself and his comrades as role models for education majors: “The more we tried to teach others, the more we ourselves learned. . . . We became better teachers, deeper, more thoughtful and more effective organizers. We
William Charles (Bill) Ayers considers himself “a work in progress, swimming through a sea of contradictions.”. He believes that whatever he says about anyone else or what anyone says about him, “should be thought of as partial, contingent, unfinished, and doubtful as a useful summary.”. Ayers is known both for his 1960s activism ...
