Sol Stern, writing in City Journal,  highlights what is often overlooked in the discussion about Ayers' and Obama's Chicago Annenberg Challenge: It represents yet another effort to spread Ayers' brand of educational humbug to poor urban schoolchildren to further disadvantage them in life:America's historical ideal of public schooling as a means of assimilating all children (and particularly the children of new immigrants) into a common civic and democratic culture is already under assault from the multiculturalists and their race- and gender-centered pedagogy. Now Ayers and his social justice movement, by dismissing the civic culture ideal as nothing more than "capitalist hegemony," subvert the public schools even further-while subsidized by the taxpayers, including the capitalists who supposedly control the schools.And it's not just from his government-funded outpost at the University of Illinois that Ayers is spreading the word about radical social justice...(Read Full Post)