By Steve Diamond on Jul 5, 2008 in AFT, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barbara Jordan, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Education, Education Debt, Linda Darling-Hammond, Mike Klonsky, Unions, Weather Underground, William Ayers | 255 Comments
All of a sudden, the American Federation of Teachers seems to have decided it is in their best interest to rise to the defense of Obama and his education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond. In particular, they do not want anyone looking too closely at the long-standing relationship between Bill Ayers and their preferred presidential candidate, Senator […]
By LisaB on Jul 5, 2008 in ABC News, Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Bill Clinton, CNN, Current Affairs, Democrats, Education, Education Debt, Electoral College, Gun Control, death penalty | 54 Comments
1) Over at the Guardian is an interesting two-part piece (part one here and part two here ) about how old, debunked and just plain vicious right-wing rumors and lies about HRC and BC are recycled by today’s “progressive wing” of the Democratic Party. Why this should be so is not explained (and is there […]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 26, 2008 in Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bolshevikization, Current Affairs, Education, Education Debt, Latinos, Mike Klonsky, Race Card, Racism, SDS, Weather Underground, White Supremacy, William Ayers | 171 Comments
If you believe the rhetoric of the “social justice” crowd influencing the Obama camp’s approach to education policy - the authoritarian leftists Bill Ayers and his sidekick Mike Klonsky as well ed school professors like Linda Darling-Hammond
and Gloria Ladson-Billings - only reparations for 400 years of oppression of non-whites will allow us to close the “achievement […]
