hmmm... curiouser and curiouser...;)
Michael Klonsky, Professor and Director
Small Schools Workshop
University of Illinois at Chicago
115 S. Sangamon Street, #118
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312.413.5882 Fax: 312.413.5847
http://www.aypf.org/forumbriefs/2000/fb041400.htm
Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist, a leader of the New Communist Movement.
Klonsky's father, Robert Klonsky, had been arrested as a communist in the 1950s and convicted of violating the Smith Act.[1] In the late 1960s Michael Klonsky was the national secretary of the Students for a Democratic Society,[2] which he joined as a student at San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University, Northridge).[3] He was one of five S.D.S. members arrested on May 12, 1969, when prank phone calls sent police and firefighters to the S.D.S. offices in Chicago.[2] In the 1970s he headed the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist),[4] in which role he was one of the first westerners allowed to visit the People's Republic of China.[4][5]
More recently Klonsky has been a professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago;[6] his academic work focused on small school size as a solution to the problems of inner city schools. He is now the director of the Small Schools Workshop, a school outreach program associated with UIC.[7][8]
References "9 Philadelphians Convicted as Reds; Leaders Found Guilty of Plot to Overthrow Government – Trial Ran for 71 Days", New York Times, August 14, 1954.
a b Janson, Donald (May 13, 1969), "5 in S.D.S. Seized by Chicago Police; Scuffle Occurs as Officers Answer False Alarm", New York Times.
Moreland, Pamela (April 22, 1988), "Legacy of Turmoil: CSUN Looks Back at Years of Activism at Former Valley State College", Los Angeles Times.
a b "Westerners Meet Chairman Hua", New York Times, August 26, 1977.
Mathews, Jay (September 7, 1977), "China Rolls Out Red Carpet for Tiny Pro-Peking Groups", Los Angeles Times.
Bruce, Allison L. (July 28, 2003), "Small schools within large schools help students focus", Charleston Post and Courier.
Biography of Klonsky at SSW web site. Retrieved August 19, 2008. UIC Partnerships in Education. Retrieved August 19, 2008.
You can add to Small Schools, Rick Ayers, also an SDS nut who has been involved with Small Schools.