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Southern Poverty Law Center Teaching Tolerance (TT) in Schools Headed by William Ayers
Southern Poverty Law Center Teaching Tolerance (TT) in Schools Headed by William Ayers
- Makes educational materials available to teachers at no cost
- Headed by William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist and university professor
- Features lesson plans that portray America as an irremediably unjust and racist society
Founded in 1991 as a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Teaching Tolerance (TT) works to “foster school environments that are inclusive and nurturing,” and to help teachers “prepare a new generation to live in a diverse world.” Toward these ends, TT produces a plethora of multimedia teaching kits, online curricula, and professional-development resources for classroom instructors, as well as a biannual publication, Teaching Tolerance magazine, which reaches more than 450,000 educators nationwide. All of these materials are made available to educators at no cost.
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The individual in charge of Teaching Tolerance is William Ayers, the former Weather Underground terrorist and university professor. In a glowing profile that appeared in Teaching Tolerance magazine, SPLC research fellow Gabrielle Lyon depicted Ayers as an “education reformer,” a “civil rights organizer,” a champion of “social justice,” and a “teacher and author” with “a rich vision of teaching that interweaves passion, responsibility and self-reflection.”… Read more>>
