<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div id="yiv283204720"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" id="yiv283204720bodyDrftID" class="yiv283204720"><tbody><tr><td id="yiv283204720drftMsgContent" style="font:inherit;font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><div id="yiv283204720"><p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">University</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Maine</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Farmington</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> will host a presentation by educator, author and activist William
 Ayers entitled: “Lesson One: I Would Sing. (Re)Framing Education for Democracy and Liberation.” This event is sponsored by two UMF student
 organizations: UMF’s Student Education Association of Maine (SEAM) and Peace Activists in Training (PAinT). It is free and open-to-the-public and will be held at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">7 p.m.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">, Wednesday, March 30, in Lincoln Auditorium, in </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">UMF</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Roberts</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Learning</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Center</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ayers is a proponent of social justice, democracy and education, and the political and cultural aspects of schooling. In his presentation, he'll talk about creating schools where democracy is lived and not merely talked about, practiced rather than ritualized. He will discuss creating schools and classrooms that assist in the formation of public citizens; where students and teachers alike can find socially meaningful work to do; and where children can read critically, speak openly, think freely and where everyone can find ways to make a difference.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Ayers is an educator, author and activist and </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">is currently the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association. He is formerly a</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> distinguished professor of education and senior university scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><br>An award-winning author, Ayers has written extensively about social justice; democracy and education; the cultural contexts of schooling; and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. With close to 20 books to his credit, he has also written articles that have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Rethinking</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Schools</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">, the Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><br>Ayers is a graduate of the </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">University</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> of </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Michigan</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">; the Bank Street College of Education; </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Bennington</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">College</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">; and Teachers College, </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Columbia</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">University</span><span
 style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">. He received his Ed.D. in curriculum and instruction at </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">Columbia</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">University</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;"><br>Media Contact: Doug Rawlings, UMF Adviser to PAinT, <a rel="nofollow">207-778-7292</a>, or <a rel="nofollow">rawlings@maine.edu</a>.</span></p>
<font class="yiv283204720Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font>Doug Rawlings<div>
""...the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends to justice...."  Martin Luther King, Jr. </div><br>
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