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Sol Stern, writing in City Journal, delves into the importance and influence of former Weather Underground member William Ayers in American K-12 education. Contrary to Barack Obama's characterization of Ayers as a "Professor of English" that he knows from his Hyde Park neighborhood, Ayers is actually an education professor who has long been a mover and shaker in the Chicago city schools establishment.

However, William Ayers influence doesn't stop in Chicago. When the unrepentant "former" terrorist changed careers he went from being an anti-American terrorist to anti-American educator. William Ayers transitioned from trying to affect change and influence America through poorly constructed explosive devices and violent confrontations with symbols of the establishment to a much more subtle, but perhaps more insidiously effective methodology. And the new methods used by Ayers and others have influenced ideas and affected change through their influence in American education.

In the intervening years, according to Mr. Stern's article, Ayers has become an important formulator of education curricula that strives to introduce left-wing ideas and philosophy to the education of future teachers. Teachers receive more than a teacher's education. They are also indoctrinated with Ayers' political philosophies before entering classrooms of public schools across America. Recently elected Vice-President of AERA, an important national education body, William Ayers, as an educator at the University of Illinois, has apparently been an important part of the bloodless revolution that has infused many of America's educators and classrooms with a philosophy espoused by Ayers and like minded educators of future teachers.

From Sol Stern's article:

Indeed, the education department at the University of Illinois is a hotbed for the radical education professoriate. As Ayers puts it in one of his course descriptions, prospective K–12 teachers need 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.” Ayers’s texts on the imperative of social-justice teaching are among the most popular works in the syllabi of the nation’s ed schools and teacher-training institutes. One of Ayers’s major themes is that the American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony. Thus, the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change.

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