Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. This drive and requirement for self-emancipation has been consistent through the story of Black American history.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Eventually, and unexpectedly, the school board voted to keep him on as superintendent. “A

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Only a third of American students are reading proficiently at grade level, according to national benchmark tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Its creators say they’ve felt a a surge of support, in part because the idea could provide long-term solutions to help combat the extraordinary rise in hate crimes targeting all Asian Americans seen since the beginning of the pandemic. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

A supportive and engaged group of educators. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Discussion of primary documents. Click here.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 20, 2024

Ultimately, the perspective of Bob Moses — a Harvard-educated math teacher and organizer from Harlem (and the man most identified with Freedom Summer’s field operation) won out. Volunteers who came to Mississippi after the initial June wave often assisted the ongoing civic and practical education taking place in “Freedom Schools.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

He has written for and consulted with museums and galleries, and was co-curator of the acclaimed exhibition Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment for the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Visiting Lecturers and Session Leaders Louise Bernard is the director of the Museum of the Obama Presidential Center. Aston Gonzalez is associate professor of history at Salisbury University in Maryland. He is a scholar of nineteenth century African American history, politics, and visual culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Maikko, 2, in pink, Terrance, 1, in red, and Nylah, behind Terrance, dance as their child care provider, Lorna Parks, foreground, claps during a visit by staffers from Detroit’s African-American History Museum. We’re educators, moms, we’re the nurse, social workers, we cook, we clean,” Parks said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing. An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. course targeted by Gov.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. ’s dedication to education, public service, and social justice. Mary Coleman and John Matthew Holden, with additional contributions from The HistoryMakers website and the APSA. Dr. Matthew Holden Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

Masterman High School, the rising junior was doing research for a proposal to convince the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to erect a marker to commemorate the walkouts, when thousands of local students marched to protest racial injustice more than 50 years earlier. The focal point was the city’s Board of Education building.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The housing authority and the district, which manages the school, hired Big Picture Learning, a nationally recognized education nonprofit, to operate it. In an area where you need more investment in education and housing,” said Jeremiah, “what we saw was the reverse — an exodus of investment.”. Board of Education decision.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Whereas I worked for many decades now with Native American communities in the U.S. So, if I was going to make, develop an op-ed around Native American history and culture I’ve written books, received grants and so on, I’m well prepared to make that argument. No actual expertise in that area. south west.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

In New York, the Statue of Liberty was renovated in 1986, and the Ellis Island Museum opened in 1990. On the Mall, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened in 1993, the Korean Veterans’ Memorial in 1995, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in 1997, the World War II Memorial and the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L. Tuesday, July 11 – Sessions at Metropolitan Museum of Art The War in Oil, Bronze, and Plaster Session 1 - Reflections on the previous day. Reading: Eleanor Harvey, “Introduction,” The Civil War in American Art , (Washington, D. Lunch on own.

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Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

On November 12, the National Museum of African American History and Culture hosted a conversation about the new graphic history , Freedom Was in Sight. The Zinn Education Project co-sponsored the event. The post New Graphic History of Reconstruction in D.C. appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

President Donald Trump recently announced his intention to create a 1776 Commission, charged with restoring patriotic, “pro-America” education to public schools. We can admit our mistakes while also celebrating the heroes of our history — which must include Black history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Bayard Rustin Education Bldg. This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. Higher Education. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. Neither important act is about erasing history — it’s about making it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Black contributions to society are not being recognized in the pantheon of American history. Many multicultural education advocates have promoted curricula that expand the perspectives in American history. The pushback to the ethnic studies and multicultural education movements is about protecting white history.

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