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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Teachers read pledges and/or students testify at a historic site. Or march to a local civic building.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2025

Zinn Education Project

Find an event near you and show up Go to a historic site and take a photo with a Teach Truth sign that you make or download. Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. All you need to do is select a site and register.

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo The controversies have had subtle reverberations for the classrooms in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Virginia too. Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

and the Phillips County Retired Teachers Association at the Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School Historic Site, named for educator and philanthropist Eliza Ann Ross Miller. Area Educators for Social Justice hosted interactive Teach Truth pop-up display tables on June 8 at: Busboys and Poets Brookland.