American History Public School Social Justice 
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 27, 2020
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. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 6, 2023
Related: OPINION: The College Board is sanitizing African American studies just as it has American history Fear of Black revolt and power led nearly all slave states to pass laws against teaching enslaved Blacks to read and write. DeSantis’ playbook is plagiarized.
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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.
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. On the Wednesday following the A.P.
Zinn Education Project
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
The tsunami of laws and Executive Orders attacking public school curricula mobilize a range of doublespeak, from divisive concepts to race scapegoating to psychological stress; many include the admonition that teachers may not teach students that the United States is fundamentally or irredeemably racist or sexist.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 31, 2021
They watched as the police murder of an unarmed Black man reignited the country’s fight for racial and social justice. And they lived through perhaps the most divisive presidential battle in American history, culminating in rioters storming the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Zinn Education Project
APRIL 22, 2025
Co-sponsors include Al-Hadaf KC, Brothers Liberating Our Communities, Latinx Education Collaborative, Kinship Cafe, NEA Shawnee Mission Social Justice Committee, NEA-Kansas City, KS, Thula B., Wyandotte High School PTSA, Voting Rights Network of Wyandotte County.
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