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To: SilentZ who wrote (423228)	10/7/2008 8:17:17 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1596456

Because he doesn't mention in his books. Because the Chicago Annenberg Challenge's own evaluation of its impact showed no effect on student performance. Because it was apparently just a big exercise in radical education: AYERS, in charge of shaping CAC's education philosophy, describes himself as "a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist." Rather than focusing on anything as mundane as math or reading, the job of teachers, said AYERS, is to "teach against oppression." AYERS "downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism," writes Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. "AYERS wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression," reports Kurtz. "He believes teacher education programs should serve as 'sites of resistance' to an oppressive system." pittsburghlive.com

To: SilentZ who wrote (423228)	10/7/2008 10:30:29 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1596456

>>Ayers advocates what he calls a "social justice" approach to education. What that means is the promotion of his authoritarian politics through our public school system. Four key tactics that Ayers supports in order to help implement his world view are: the creation of "local school councils" (LSCs) like those that Ayers has promoted in Chicago for the last 20 years; * "small schools" which Ayers has also promoted since the early 1990s in Chicago and elsewhere; * the advocacy of what Ayers and others call "social justice" teaching; and * the payment of reparations through education spending to correct what he has seen for 40 years as the fundamentally racist nature of American society. Local school councils and small schools, I should hasten to point out, have nothing to do with improving student test scores and outcomes. That is not their purpose and, in fact, the Ayers camp is actually opposed to objective standards like test scores as a measure of the effectiveness of our schools. The purpose of these entities is to create a political base for Ayers and his band of fellow traveling authoritarians to push their wider political agenda. Once inside the schools Ayers, who now heads the curriculum division of the leading education professional association, attempts to alter the teaching content of classrooms to include a "politically correct" "social justice" curriculum. As Ayers explained in a speech in Venezuela in front of strong man Hugo Chavez on his fourth visit to that country in November 2006, there are "profound education reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution." He found in Chavez' authoritarian Venezuela institutions being created that were very similar to what he advocates here in the United States. And it turns out that Barack Obama also supports all four of those key tactical ideas and has since the earliest days of his political career. globallabor.blogspot.com