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. Sign up today.

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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

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action. For the past three summers, educators, students, parents, and allies have joined across the country to speak out against politicians attempting to restrict the freedoms of educators and students. With no exceptions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Stanford’s myth busters, led by education professor Sam Wineburg and doctoral student Sarah Cotcamp McGrew, have field-tested 15 news-literacy tasks of varying difficulty, with about 50 more in the works. Sam Wineburg, Stanford University education professor. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.) High School social studies teacher.

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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 post Teach Truth Day of Action appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access peoples history lessons in 2024 ,bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state. In this perilous time, please donate to defend teachers right to teach peoples history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Then came the anti-CRT movement Andy Rotherham, who was appointed to the state board of education in 2022 by Youngkin, said the outcome of the social studies debate shows that people can get past politics to a good result.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education. Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony.

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