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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers.

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Teach Truth History Walking Tours

Zinn Education Project

Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school. The event hosts can point out that teachers are trying to share this history, but they face censorship from anti-history education laws and Executive Orders. Wyandotte High School PTSA, Voting Rights Network of Wyandotte County.

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