{"id":138,"date":"2025-02-20T13:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:51:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:51:21","slug":"what-has-happened-to-american-principled-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/what-has-happened-to-american-principled-education\/","title":{"rendered":"What Has Happened to &#8220;American Principled Education&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Bill Ayers, the former president of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) &#8212; once considered a violent socialist\/communist influenced organization &#8212; and founder of the Weather Underground, has all but eliminated America&#8217;s principled education. Through his lifelong commitment to evolving student curriculum focused on students in elementary school (K-12) at the University of Chicago as a tenured PhD (now retired), reaching national prominence in re-designing the school&#8217;s curriculum, his influence has been far-reaching. His training as a social activist was colored by Sal Alinsky, beginning in the late 1960s.<br \/><br \/>Bill Ayers&#8217; impact is a root cause of why we are experiencing current political and social issues. And it was Nikita Khrushchev who ranted about &#8220;burying the United States from within.&#8221;<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Ayers, the former president of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) &#8212; once considered a violent socialist\/communist influenced organization &#8212; and founder of the Weather Underground, has all but eliminated America&#8217;s principled education. Through his lifelong commitment to evolving student curriculum focused on students in elementary school (K-12) at the University of Chicago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/what-has-happened-to-american-principled-education\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Has Happened to &#8220;American Principled Education&#8221;?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinleadership.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}