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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

The two needs are related, for there is simply not enough time for those who teach multiple classes, often in multiple disciplines, to stay on top of the flood of specialized writing, to be confident that they are teaching the best that scholars have learned. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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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. We invite people to participate from all over the United States.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

The right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Sign Up to Host a Table or Event Event hosts also reference the Teach Truth Media Guide.

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

I executed the COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement activity with my 9th grade U.S. To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. Since I teach a majority Latinx student population, they were immediately hooked. History students.

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