Comments on: More On Obama And Ayers http://www.edwize.org/more-on-obama-and-ayers Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Wither the Teachers’ Unions? The Obama/Ayers Link : NO QUARTER http://www.edwize.org/more-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-65860 Wither the Teachers’ Unions? The Obama/Ayers Link : NO QUARTER Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:45:21 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=1275#comment-65860 [...] I pointed out at the Edwize Blog sponsored by the United Federation of Teachers, the big New York division of the AFL-CIO [...] [...] I pointed out at the Edwize Blog sponsored by the United Federation of Teachers, the big New York division of the AFL-CIO [...]

]]> By: Sol Stern On Obama And Ayers Again | Edwize http://www.edwize.org/more-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-65854 Sol Stern On Obama And Ayers Again | Edwize Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:13:54 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=1275#comment-65854 [...] post, Is the educational right capable of debating Obama’s educational program? and in our response, and there is nothing new to add to the discussion at this point. Let’s recall that you [...] [...] post, Is the educational right capable of debating Obama’s educational program? and in our response, and there is nothing new to add to the discussion at this point. Let’s recall that you [...]

]]> By: Steve Diamond http://www.edwize.org/more-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-65853 Steve Diamond Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:27:33 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=1275#comment-65853 This is wrong. Obama was Chairman of the Board of the Annenberg Challenge, picked by Ayers. Ayers was co-chair of the Challenge's operative body, the Chicago School Collaborative. Together they worked hand in glove for five years raising an additional 60 million dollars on top of the 50 million dollar grant and then using that money to intervene in the Chicago "school war." How long are you and others going to ignore the close longstanding relationship IN EDUCATION of Obama and Ayers. Anyone who wants the details can find them on my blog where I summarize the Annenberg grant proposal, its annual reports and its board minutes. In my view there are three positions being staked out in education now: the race based approach of Ayers, Darling Hammond and others in the Obama camp; the NCLB/reform/charter school camp; and the EPI type multi factor approach. So this is not an abstract battle about the past - it is about how the authoritarian race-based politics of Ayers and others are influencing the present. Finally, regarding Ayers and the Obama campaign today - while he may not have an official role in the campaign Obama himself admitted they continue to talk, there have been reports that he is an advisor to Obama and Mike Klonsky - a non-entity in education and, well, everywhere else, a stalinist ghost of the 60s past - was able to blog on the official Obama website for months on education policy and the "social justice" agenda of the authoritarian left. Klonsky was put into his position by Ayers at the Small Schools Workshop which receive $175,000 from the Annenberg Challenge led jointly by Ayers and Obama. It is only the longstanding connection to Ayers that could have gotten Klonsky the education blog page. The very day I posted a blog about it his blog was shut down and all of his posts were erased from the site without a word of explanation from the Obama campaign or Klonsky. This is wrong. Obama was Chairman of the Board of the Annenberg Challenge, picked by Ayers. Ayers was co-chair of the Challenge’s operative body, the Chicago School Collaborative. Together they worked hand in glove for five years raising an additional 60 million dollars on top of the 50 million dollar grant and then using that money to intervene in the Chicago “school war.” How long are you and others going to ignore the close longstanding relationship IN EDUCATION of Obama and Ayers. Anyone who wants the details can find them on my blog where I summarize the Annenberg grant proposal, its annual reports and its board minutes.

In my view there are three positions being staked out in education now: the race based approach of Ayers, Darling Hammond and others in the Obama camp; the NCLB/reform/charter school camp; and the EPI type multi factor approach. So this is not an abstract battle about the past – it is about how the authoritarian race-based politics of Ayers and others are influencing the present.

Finally, regarding Ayers and the Obama campaign today – while he may not have an official role in the campaign Obama himself admitted they continue to talk, there have been reports that he is an advisor to Obama and Mike Klonsky – a non-entity in education and, well, everywhere else, a stalinist ghost of the 60s past – was able to blog on the official Obama website for months on education policy and the “social justice” agenda of the authoritarian left. Klonsky was put into his position by Ayers at the Small Schools Workshop which receive $175,000 from the Annenberg Challenge led jointly by Ayers and Obama.

It is only the longstanding connection to Ayers that could have gotten Klonsky the education blog page. The very day I posted a blog about it his blog was shut down and all of his posts were erased from the site without a word of explanation from the Obama campaign or Klonsky.

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