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.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

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. What : Day of Action to Teach the Truth National Press Call (The Day of Action is on June 8. )

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. Teachers are professionals and experts in their field, and their subject-matter knowledge and understanding of how to accurately and adequately teach a complicated past are critical to student comprehension and achievement.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

But I believe that by allowing students to follow their own curiosity about our local history–whether this means something good or something less flattering–I am allowing them a stake in the future development of our community.

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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. These laws and restrictions have been imposed in at least 18 states.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. Teaching Stories Teachers who received the hardback edition have shared their appreciation and teaching stories, including those below.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor. But in August 2022, the new proposed standards, which included recommendations from the state’s African American History Education Commission, were put on hold to allow Youngkin appointees a chance to review them.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As educators, we would tell our students they could become anything, while simultaneously teaching them in a school building that had no soap in the bathrooms, broken computers and a nurse for half a day, only on Fridays. Every day, as a 40-year-old, I struggle with these losses and imagine what it’s like for the 14-year-olds I teach.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2022

By limiting every historical event to the margins of a page, we were more likely to annotate individual lines than grasp the significance of past events. For visual learners, films can be the best way to retain information on a certain topic; they are especially valuable if they include footage from real events.

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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. Attend meetings, vote, run for office.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. I executed the COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement activity with my 9th grade U.S. History students. Here are just a few.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

However, across the country, legislatures have passed laws to criminalize teaching honestly about U.S. history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. SNCC veteran Judy Richardson said at a Teach Truth rally last year that we organize so that “The fascists can’t stop us!” Who and Where?

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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, let us recommit to teaching and working for the dignity of all peoples.

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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. A recent American Historical Association study of teaching U.S.

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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

A group of more than 300 historians and education experts published their answer — a “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy.” 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).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Author Andrea Gabor called the violence a “Sputnik moment for teaching civics.”. As Americans survey the damage to our democracy, how much can we blame schools for the vast divide between how different groups understand our shared history? Education is key,” she said. The pathology is white supremacy,” he said.

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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. and African American history. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. This story also appeared in NBC News.

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