The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. And, she added, “I also have to miss studying for my physics test to be here.” Credit: Christina A.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Coordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. Event hosts also reference the Teach Truth Media Guide. Sign up here.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Contents Action Plan Overview | Action Plan Step-by-Step Guide Media Guide | Posters and Graphics | Map of Sites Messages for Signs, Social Media, and Chants | Record a Statement Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events Join us to defend the freedom to learn. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Learn how at HEAL Together classes.)

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively. I always check Zinn Education Project for new and exciting lessons that keep students engaged and speak truth! Thank you for such an engaging and important activity.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

Textbooks and high-stakes testing have also long distorted curricula. 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. If you want to host an event, skip this list and read the action plan further below.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. ” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

Kaley Duong, a recent high school graduate, on the Seattle Teach Truth history of 1919 walking tour. One of the best way to engage the community in defending the right to learn history is with a local history walking tour. Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

This is particularly true for learning our history. To understand America today requires examining the major events in our past that define our national character (for good or for ill). Is American history education the problem? Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? citizenship exam.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence. At the same time, researchers have said that it can be hard to discern which parts of schooling shape people’s political identity, because schools are such complicated places.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. Chris Tims, Iowa high school teacher. High schoolers in a social studies class work on a lesson about the history of nationalism.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2025

The class is part of a curriculum that Virginias Albemarle County school district developed after a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, the county seat. If students aren’t allowed to grapple with the more complex moments in American history, they’re going to have an incomplete view of the U.S.

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