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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks. Why should we all be alarmed?

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John Thompson: Ryan Walters Appoints Extremists to Revise Oklahoma Social Studies Curriculum

Diane Ravitch

John Thompson writes: KOSU’s Beth Wallace reports that the Executive Review Committee assembled by Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters features prominent conservatives, including Dennis Prager of PragerU , David Barton of the Christian Nationalist organization, Wallbuilders , and the president of the Heritage Foundation , Kevin Roberts.”

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OPINION: Trump is back. We’re still waiting on his plan for schools

The Hechinger Report

So they’re promising not to nationalize how schools teach history, except when they don’t like how certain schools teach history. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 proposes to “eliminate” and “redistribute the various congressionally approved federal education programs across the government.”

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What education could look like under Trump and Vance

The Hechinger Report

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank behind Project 2025 , earlier this year released a set of policy recommendations on undocumented immigrants in U.S.

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The dark future of American child care

The Hechinger Report

Project 2025, a blueprint for a second Trump administration organized by the Heritage Foundation, calls for the elimination of the Office of Head Start , which oversees federally funded early ­learning programs that serve more than 800,000 low-­income children. It’s hard to see where the impetus would come from at this point.”