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. Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to rally across the country and pledge to #TeachTruth and defend LGBTQ+ rights on June 8, 2024.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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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.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

But here it is twisted into a cudgel to cancel speeches, enact police violence, and otherwise suppress the voices of students and educators of conscience. The post Students Defend Human Rights appeared first on Zinn Education Project. Yes, safety at school is important — for everyone.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. In this election year, that is why educators are hosting more than 170 events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. The laws’ chilling effect reaches classrooms nationwide. Mary Beth Tinker, Tinker v.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading. As educators, we must help our students make historical explanations for today’s violence.

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