Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. Eleven individuals are driving the overwhelming majority of book challenges according to a Washington Post analysis. EST Where : Via Zoom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

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. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years. Purpose Once again, educators are at the center of battles over what U.S. history children will learn and the kind of future they will create.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

But I believe that by allowing students to follow their own curiosity about our local history–whether this means something good or something less flattering–I am allowing them a stake in the future development of our community. It was incredible that my students had access to such quality professionals!

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Tensions are running high in some parts of the state over curricula, books and parents’ rights, but there have not yet been broad statewide changes in policy like those seen in other states such as Florida. Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2025, with your help , we can: Recruit thousands of teachers to our peoples history network , now 170,000 strong Organize actions and media to challenge anti-history education laws and book bans Develop more lessons and offer workshops on immigration, environmental racism, McCarthyism, Reconstruction, voting rights, Palestine , and more Engage thousands (..)

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

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. Books by Black, Indigenous, authors of color, LGBTQ+, and Palestinian American writers are increasingly being banned. Students as Historians.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Sign up today.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

The anti-history laws and book bans make a bad situation worse, as Bill Bigelow describes in, The Attack on Anti-Racist Teaching Attacks Environmental Justice Teaching. Read about a 4th-grade class ’ s banned books study and share your teaching stories Get involved with the school board. Who and Where? What to Say?

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

History I classes, I had them complete the Zinn Education Project activity “ How We Remember.” I had read Clint Smith’s book last year and was blown away by how the history is handled at many of the highlighted locations and his extreme attention to detail.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Tw, Kellie Carter Jackson, and more Hosted 75 new Teaching for Black Lives teacher study groups , bringing our total to more than 400 in 45 states Selected the second cohort of the peoples history teacher leadership fellowshipnamed for education activists C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

That year, books by two Black women authors were removed from the ninth-grade English curriculum, and one unit of English instruction, “Dreams and Oppressions,” was changed to remove the word oppressions from its title, reframing the course to focus on personal obstacles rather than systemic discrimination.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. The collection includes picture books, chapter books, poetry, and background reading for educators. A History of Modern Palestine on American Prestige with Rashid Khalidi.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Is American history education the problem? Second, the sorry state of American history textbooks creates an opportunity to provide new high-quality curriculum options that build knowledge sequentially from kindergarten to 12th grade. Related: Most Mississippians can’t pass U.S. citizenship exam.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Or, as journalist Stephen Sawchuk has written , “A history education rooted in facts, evidence, and well-argued positions might be a beginning step toward healthier, more productive, and more engaged citizenry. And while it’s clear that schools matter, the size of that influence is debatable. But it is hardly an inoculation.

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