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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Select a site in your town or city that symbolizes or reflects history that teachers would be required to lie about or omit if these bills become law, which is already the case in some states.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. There are also countless historic sites that are unmarked such as a freeway that destroyed a neighborhood or a university building funded by enslaved labor.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

Neither are the laws they challenged , Mississippi civil rights activist T.R.M. In contrast, James K. This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then?

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. Toolkit to Defend K-12 Educators and Librarians Against False Accusations of Antisemitism compiled by Nora Lester Murad and Alice Rothchild.

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Student voices: A daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants and ‘heartbroken’ by the Muslim travel ban

The Hechinger Report

Related: From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S. The toxic dialogue that has surrounded the national debate about issues of immigration, civil rights and border security is troubling to me.