William Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (retired). He co-edited City Kids, City Teachers; Teaching for Social Justice; Zero Tolerance; and City Kids, City Schools (all available from The New Press).Jean Ann Hunt, editor of Democracy and Education, is coordinator for the Institute for Democracy in Education. Therese Quinn is chair and associate professor of art history and the director of the Museum and Exhibition Studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a co-editor (with William Ayers and Jean Ann Hunt) of Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader (The New Press).