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OPINION: Our education system is not setting up students for success

The Hechinger Report

Our education system is failing to educate the next generation to face the challenges of our times. To fix this, we need to deepen our investments in civics and history instruction, bolstered by an emphasis on critical thinking skills. We are not setting our children up for success.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. I was teaching for critical thinking. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law.

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Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

Campaign for Palestinian Rights A Dangerous Conflation: An open letter from Jewish writers Climate Community Pledge in Support of a Ceasefire Educators for Palestine Open Letter to the National Education Association. public school educators — see press release Petition to Encourage Jackson Reed High School (in Washington, D.C.)