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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

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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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

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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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. Here are highlights from the remarks. Here are highlights from the remarks. I was teaching for critical thinking. They want to hurt trans kids.

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OPINION: The wrong roadmap for teaching American history

The Hechinger Report

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). First, strengthen history curricula at the state level, which — for better or for worse — is where the authority rests to control curriculum.

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Defying the Censorship: People’s History Taught in More Classrooms

Zinn Education Project

Our wide reach is thanks to word of mouth, individual donors, and countless teachers dedication to bringing peoples history to their students. Through our lessons, young people are learning toread the news with a critical eye, to assess current events with a historical lens, and to recognize red-baiting and fear-mongering tactics.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

“In Virginia, Youngkin can’t begin to do what Ron DeSantis can do in Florida on questions of ‘wokeness,’ because there is a Democratic Senate majority that is blocking much of Youngkin’s preferred agenda,” said Stephen Farnsworth, the director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington.

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Can we teach our way out of political polarization?

The Hechinger Report

Other institutions, along with a lack of leadership, have played a role in the current crisis, he said. Or, as journalist Stephen Sawchuk has written , “A history education rooted in facts, evidence, and well-argued positions might be a beginning step toward healthier, more productive, and more engaged citizenry.

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