Civics History Education Leadership 
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. Walk on a route with signs to raise awareness about the threats to education. Or march to a local civic building. See photos and stories about the D.C.
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. Or march to a local civic building.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2021
secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. The Educating for American Democracy project offers no clear guidance on which path is the right one.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2021
Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. As Americans survey the damage to our democracy, how much can we blame schools for the vast divide between how different groups understand our shared history? history and civics, and many leave school with big gaps in political knowledge.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 28, 2021
As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. This story also appeared in NBC News.
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