The biggest nugget? How about +/-30 years of knowledge on the subject?
Deconstruction of text
Ed Philosophy
Studs Terkel
“Teaching as a Subversive Activity”
Look not only at the curricula of K-12, but also of Colleges of Ed. Everyone is taught his thoughts, him and his ‘cohort.’
Communities of Practice
Self-organizing systems
Cohort
The argument over what exactly IS basic education
“Service learning”
Thematic studies as model curricula
Oh yes. _ _ _ (”xYZ”) ‘justice’
The radicals have captured the flagship of American education at the highest AND deepest levels. Witness Arne Duncan’s policies. Ayres is right there.
...and critical theory.
From another article:
“Ayers speaks openly of his desire to use America’s public school classrooms to train a generation of revolutionaries who will overturn the U.S. social and economic regime. He teaches that America is oppressive and unjust, socialism is the solution, and wealth and resources should be redistributed.
In Ayers’s course called “On Urban Education,” he calls for a “distribution of material and human resources.” His left-wing notions would be very compatible with those of Obama, who publicly told Joe the Plumber that we should “spread the wealth.”
Ayers’s books are among the most widely used in America’s education schools. Ayers even uses science and math courses as part of his “transformative” political strategy to teach that the American economic system is unjust.
Ayers is an endorser of a book called “Queering Elementary Education” by William J. Letts IV and James T. Sears, a collection of essays to teach adults and children to “think queerly.” The blurb on the cover quotes Ayers as saying this is “a book for all teachers … and, yes, it has an agenda.”
“Bill Ayers’ Scary Plans for Public Schools”
by Phyllis Schlafly
10/21/2008
http://www.humanevents.com/2008/10/21/bill-ayers-scary-plans-for-public-schools/
I went to some trouble to go get relevant text and add my own. If you want more, go get it yourself. It’s all there. It has been for a very long time.
“Freire, Ayers, and an
Economics Lesson for Fifth-Graders”
By Emma Rose Roderick
http://www.teachablemoment.org/ideas/freire.html
I know that he has opinions, and left-wing goals but that isn’t what you said.
I would like to see your source for Bill Ayers being the most powerful and influential educator in America and the American system of education.