Caving to the fears: schools cancel Bill Ayers visits

By |2016-01-14T15:48:14-05:00April 2nd, 2009|Blog|

A Naperville, Illinois, school has canceled a speech by Bill Ayers, a professor of education, because of objections to his association with the Weather Underground 30 years ago. Ayers was scheduled to talk about his field, urban education, to a high school social studies class. All the students had parental permission to hear him speak. Word of his appearance leaked [...]