Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. Children learn about the Black businesses, libraries, good schools, bus system, auto shop, hospital, newspapers, movie theaters, hotel, and post office.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 16, 2018

As educators, we set the tone within our classrooms, and students act in the way that we allow them to. Creating an environment free from judgement and free from bias is the responsibility of every educator. The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Let’s take maps, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

With libraries shuttered and bookstores a nonessential trip, many parents have downloaded book after book on tablets and smartphones to keep their little ones reading. For Kucirkova, improving digital books is a matter of “social justice”. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 14, 2025

renowned political scientist, distinguished educator, and cherished mentor, passed away on January 26, 2025, at the age of 93. ’s dedication to education, public service, and social justice. life was a testament to the power of ideas and the enduring impact of a life dedicated to truth and justice.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 7, 2022

TikTok may have started as the preferred social media platform for modern dance crazes, but the platform’s growth has made it a home for something else—misinformation. Add to that its popularity among teens and its powerful algorithm, and you have a mix that worries some educators about TikTok’s potential negative impacts for young users.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Although the case is widely expected to go to the Supreme Court next, it will still undoubtedly challenge all efforts in higher education for diversity across the country. But according to the National Center for Education Statistics , 87 percent of faculty in the U.S. A diverse faculty supports student inclusion. in 2015 were white.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Education professor Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop famously described it this way: “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Emily House, executive director, Tennessee Higher Education Commission and the Tennessee Student Assistance Corporation. “It It’s a real barrier,” said Zora Mulligan, the state’s commissioner of higher education.) Laura Perna, executive director, Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 19, 2023

It is my hope that the story of Jamyle Cannon and The Bloc will offer a model for other educators, a different path forward in the way we look at extracurriculars. Students in the program, who attend schools in the surrounding neighborhoods, have a 100% graduation rate and an average GPA of 3.2. The name of the program is The Bloc.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

“There’s a lot of talk of martyrdom in education and I’ve always been against that, and if you’re in a place that’s killing your soul, I want you to leave. .” But for teachers who work in places where the community is outright against any discussion of race, Kay’s advice is simple. ” Any other advice? .”

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It was in Alex Venet’s book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), where she names it as the most important guiding philosophy in her work. ” The concept was introduced to psychotherapy by Carl Rogers in the 1960s and applied to education by Alfie Kohn in a 2005 essay called Unconditional Teaching.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Alex Shevrin Venet Alex Shevrin Venet is someone whose work has dramatically expanded my own understanding of trauma-informed education, and my hope is that in sharing her approach with you, it will expand yours as well. ” She sees the most powerful trauma-informed education as working on three different levels: It RESPONDS to trauma.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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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 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 10, 2024

Credit: Zinn Education Project. In school board discussions, there were references to ensuring that the wording would bar specific curricula, including the 1619 Project and the Zinn Education Project In Oklahoma, the state has gone beyond attacking individual teachers to punishing entire school districts.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Credit: Zinn Education Project. In school board discussions, there were references to ensuring that the wording would bar specific curricula, including the 1619 Project and the Zinn Education Project In Oklahoma, the state has gone beyond attacking individual teachers to punishing entire school districts.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 19, 2024

In this election year, educators and allies are planning creative Teach Truth Day of Action events all over the country. Area Educators for Social Justice have tables at three bookstores in Washington, D.C. Educators in Patterson, New Jersey and in Boston are planning teach-ins about Palestine. And many more.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

While many educators embrace the goal of diversifying classroom materials in theory, they may not be confident about how to achieve it. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

The message, from Zach Leverenz, founder of the nonprofit EveryoneOn, attacked the Educational Broadband Service (EBS), which long ago granted school districts and education nonprofits thousands of free licenses to use a slice of spectrum — the range of frequencies that carry everything from radio to GPS navigation to mobile internet.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

So when they’re not centered in that narrative, or their ideas are not centered, then they tend to say this is not of educational value.” In Philadelphia and Norfolk, it has strengthened educators’ resolve to teach comprehensively about the subject and added to their sense of urgency. course targeted by Gov.

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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. The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The Teach Truth Day of Action is part of a campaign to reclaim public education as a common good.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

During a recent visit to Indiana, I watched a video from Purple for Parents Indiana, a chapter of a national group that pushes parental rights with a goal to “protect children from harmful agendas saturating the education system.”. It’s a reaction to social advances.”. Purple for Parents Indiana.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

The NEH Summer Institute for Higher Educational Faculty on Roman comedy in performance, which she co-directed with Timothy J. Her 2006 Roman comedy class, for instance, filled the Classics library with uproarious laughter, enough to convince comedy-skeptical colleagues to reconsider the genre’s merit. Moore (Ph.D. ’86)

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Despite our school’s commitment to social justice and our district’s prioritization of equity, there were still staff members who were unwilling to voice public support for all students. It is my fervent belief that educators have a duty to advocate for the rights and dignity of all students, and that includes trans kids.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Antioch’s decline and rebirth make it more willing to do something else that has historically come hard to higher education: be entrepreneurial and take risks. Department of Education. For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

We focus on education, health, the environment, public safety and social justice issues. Board of Education ruling, which deemed the separation of black and white students unconstitutional. Board of Education decision. Richard Milner, director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

administration, the Department of Education launched a portal it has nicknamed the “End DEI Portal.” This webpage demonstrates that President Trumps Department of Education is putting power back in the hands of parents. Fear to silence educators. That is our social justice call to action during these times.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

During a second and third grade book discussion group, a group member, Claire, invited into the conversation Shauna, a quiet student who often missed classroom discussions to go down the hall to her special education class — a practice that can make such students feel like outsiders in their own class. An excellent discussion ensued.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

In this election year, that is why educators are hosting more than 170 #TeachTruth events to challenge the media silence and encourage everyone to defend the freedom to learn. The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. The laws’ chilling effect reaches classrooms nationwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Because in a very short time since our founding in January 2021, we and our moms have been making a difference.”

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