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

The Hechinger Report

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. The district adopted a Black Historical Consciousness framework created by LaGarrett King, founder and director of the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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