William Ayers abandoned the direct action radicalism of his youth and converted to Gramscian-Fabian revolution.
His father’s lawyers succeeded in obfuscating the conspiracy charges against him in the Weatherman bomb plots.
When Ayers surfaced from his flight from justice he pursued a master’s degree in education. To his utter amazement, he found that the gate was unguarded. To his further amazement he found that having been a fugitive from the law was far from an obstacle to his new career. It gave him distinction. To the timid souls in the education department he was an exciting and romantic figure.
Over time, Bill mastered the jargon and cultivated the right connections. He secured a nice sinecure for Bernadette and made a name for himself in education.
Today William Ayers is a respected educational theorist with a special interest in developing and implementing curricula. (In fact, Ayers is the current vice president of Curriculum Studies for the American Educational Research Association, AERA.)
He is the author of several influential books on education, the focus on integrating social justice themes into such disparate subjects as science, mathematics, and, yes, social studies.

Is he the one who prepares his ground?

Here are some pertinent links:

http://www.matthewktabor.com/2008/05/19/revisiting-aera-bill-ayers-the-weather-underground-and-public-education/

http://www.city-journal.org/2008/eon0423ss.html

The infamous NYT Sept. 11, 2001 book review:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3

And the great man’s own web site:

http://www.billayers.org/