Zinn Education Project
AUGUST 1, 2024
Women in Labor History Textbooks and media often ignore women’s activism in labor history, despite the many roles women have played to organize, unionize, rally, document, and inspire workers. Many of these films alert students to how individuals and social movements have tried to make life better.
ED Surge
JULY 19, 2024
That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. But there’s a push to change that.
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Zinn Education Project
APRIL 27, 2024
Women in Labor History Textbooks and media often ignore women’s activism in labor history, despite the many roles women have played to organize, unionize, rally, document, and inspire workers. Learn more.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
For colleges interested in giving financial weight to their declarations of forgiveness and justice, reparations should not be restricted to direct descendants of those enslaved by universities because universities profited from countless slaves owned by others as well. Like other institutions, dozens of U.S.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Research has documented other ways that a teacher’s race can impact student performance. The program’s emphasis on social justice has also taught him how to craft better lessons. With this element of unpacking what social justice means, I can make my work even more meaningful to the students.”.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2020
Troy Alim, who has been a social justice activist for the past several years, said he is inspired by the leadership of young Black students and agrees that most of the university statements are window dressing. The University of Mississippi, commonly known as Ole Miss, has a long, well-documented history of racism.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. Washington University in St.
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