In comments below, a reader trots out a main pillar of the Sol Stern Ayers-does-too-matter argument: “Ayers serves a prestigious role in THE association for education professionals.” By which Mr. / Mrs. Anyonymous means: Bill Ayers was recently elected “Vice President of Curriculum Studies” for the American Education Research Association.
Let’s be sure to clear this [...]
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Missing the Big Picture
Ayers et al
I’m sure there’s a sensible way for scholars of education to talk about Bill Ayers’ decades of work in the field and make the case that it has value and that he’s a generally nice guy. But this isn’t it. As near as I can tell they’re arguing that “unrepentant terrorist” is unfair because really [...]
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03/11/10 | Kevin Carey is quoted on the rising costs of education in The Economist.
03/10/10 | Chad Aldeman Aldeman's False Fronts is quoted on Accuracy in Academia.
03/09/10 | Ben Miller is quoted on loan origination on the Firedog Lake blog.
03/07/10 | Kevin Carey calls for a Race to the Top in higher education in a column in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
03/08/10 | Andrew Rotherham's Eduwonk post on RTT finalists is quoted on Class Struggle.
03/07/10 | Andrew Rotherham is quoted on the success of MATCH in The Times-Picayune.
03/06/10 | Eduwonk's reaction to Ohio's status as a RTT finalist is cited in a Wall Street Journal editorial.
03/05/10 | Andrew Rotherham's reaction to New York's status as a Race to the Top finalist is cited on National Journal.