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COLUMN: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

The Hechinger Report

Fast forward to 2022. During a recent visit to Indiana, I watched a video from Purple for Parents Indiana, a chapter of a national group that pushes parental rights with a goal to “protect children from harmful agendas saturating the education system.”. “We history teacher. “I This is what a Marxist believes.”. Koschnick asked.

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Learn how Political Science Students are Improving Wikipedia

MPSA

You can help us broaden this important work by running a Wikipedia assignment in Winter/Spring 2022. They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. The deadline to apply for Wiki Education’s free support in Spring 2022 is November 21, 2021. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. In Florida, Gov. You can plan other activities.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

ED Surge

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. offer succinct conceptual frameworks in their 2022 book : “The Racialized Experiences of Asian American Teachers in the US: Applications of Asian Critical Race Theory to Resist Marginalization.”[ii] ii] Kim, Jung & Hsieh, Betina, 2022.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. This included 4,000 hardback copies in 2022 and 2023 — and 10,000 copies of the 2024 paperback edition. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Educators: We Must Be Champions for Our Trans Students

ED Surge

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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