Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. Donate so that we can continue to organize events like these and defend the right of teachers across the United States to teach peoples history. Or plan a history walking tour, book exchange, rally, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That coincided with a growing recognition by privileged families of the economic and career benefits of bilingualism, and a particular interest in affluent communities in studying Spanish and Mandarin. Many communities lack sufficient bilingual educators to meet the desire for dual language.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

Their mission is to “transform the educational aspirations and economic realities” of township communities by preparing youth for first-generation higher education and social mobility. Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Human rights experts and activists have named the situation in Palestine “ scholasticide ” or “ educide ,” terms that refer to the systematic destruction of a people’s educational system. Protecting academic freedom and freedom of expression is crucial—especially given the widespread silencing of Palestinian human rights advocacy.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. Students need to examine how the current crisis is shaped in large part by settler colonial history, and the role played by world powers. context and shared cultural history.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

User data, in turn, is potentially any information generated via our digital interactions or digitally recorded about us; it might include anything from text conversations to biometrics to credit history—along with any subsequent algorithmic inferring, interpreting, and predicting (however accurate or inaccurate) of our behaviors and attitudes.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Thirty-eight religiously affiliated institutions have received exemptions from Title IX, according to a list released by the Education Department under pressure from Democrats in Congress after the gay rights organization the Human Rights Campaign used public-records laws to help expose the practice.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

After explaining the history of colonization as a process of intense economic extraction and political subjugation by imperial powers, she then explained that decolonization was something far more modest. In this article, I begin with a brief overview of SBS in DRG work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

This course is an introduction to the histories of African Americans for those who talk favorably about “departed” black heroes like Ben Carson but find it difficult to recognize a black president. Session 1: Field Trip to the National Museum of African American History and Culture with U.S. Frederick Douglass, ca. Spring 2017.

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History Museum American History Social Justice 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2017

It’s an accident of history that allowed all of these same issues in the United States to emerge in South Africa at such a pitch.”. Seán Muller, an economist at the University of Johannesburg, says politicians promise students and their families that college is a step up the economic ladder — but don’t want to pay for it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The education sector in which I work is committed to critical thinking and the study of history. Women’s rights are human rights: That was Eleanor’s view before the slogan became associated with Hillary Clinton, from her speech at the 1995 U.N. The post History Lesson: Did the election just erase 250 years of progress?

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History Human Rights Critical Thinking Leadership 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He’s dead.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. You have to know your history to understand where you are coming from. This time, a man getting off the train walked up to them.

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