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"I've learned that education is never neutral. It always has a value, a position, a politic. Education either reinforces or challenges the existing social order, and school is always a contested space – what should be taught? In what way? Toward what end? By and for whom? At bottom, it involves a struggle over the essential questions: what does it mean to be a human being living in a human society?"
-William C. AyersWilliam C. Ayers
Dr. Ayers has been a director of the foundation since 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament.
He has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the political and cultural contexts of schooling, and the meaning-making and ethical purposes of students and families and teachers.
Dr. Ayers received a Ed.D. and M.Ed. in Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University (1987); M.A. in Early Childhood Education, Bank Street College of Education (1984); MFA in Nonfiction Writing, Bennington College (2002); and B.A. in American Studies, University of Michigan (1968).
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