Category: Teaching Toward Freedom

  • By Bill Ayers Photo credit: Eduardo Montes-Bradley This blog post appeared originally in Critical Inquiry. Last year my students—Chicago teachers and teachers-to-be, educators from a range of backgrounds and experiences and orientations—all read The Beautiful Struggle. I’d put Ta-Nehisi Coates’ memoir on the list of required readings because I thought it was a fitting and…

  • Bill Ayers argues that in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, the real problem is standardized testing.