Acknowledgments
As a prime source of information for this article, Dana Mitra conducted an in-depth, life-history interview with both Bill Boyd and his wife Emily in 2008 (shortly before Bill's passing). The interview was part of a project initiated by the Politics of Education Association to record a history of the Association. Lengthy quotations throughout the article are drawn from the Boyd interview as well as from documents in Bill Boyd's files pertaining to the development over time of the Politics of Education Association.