Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 1, 2025

Vote on CREDO This funding allows us to continue to offer free peoples history lessons to teachers and students lessons on Reconstruction, policing, climate change, voter suppression, reparations, and more. CREDO funding also allows us to defend the right to teach honestly in the face of anti-history education laws.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Put more emphasis on writing, argumentation, problem analysis, and making connections between core content and current events. million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2025

Do you know how to put Black history sources in context?

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

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C3 Teachers

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Similarly, students should be empowered to engage in this process to deepen their understanding of history. The challenge of making history education more inquiry-based isn’t new. This is why advocating for a more inquiry-based approach in history education isn’t just a good idea—it’s essential. In 1916, Charles H.

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NCHE

APRIL 21, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. Quality history education in K-12 classrooms is different from post-secondary spaces. K-12 history instruction and standards must balance content, skills, pedagogy, and classroom management.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A Good Civics Education Includes History When teachers, administrators and legislators talk about history education, we must consider it an exercise in civics. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts. we must reprioritize history education as a whole, not just in parts.

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NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans.

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HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Game of Quotes can be easily adapted to help students master historical thinking skills, whether you use the College Board (AP) definitions, the Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) definitions aka Digital Inquiry Group (DIG), or use the definitions from The American Historical Association (AHA).

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 8, 2025

One of the biggest challenges in history education is engaging students in meaningful analysis while encouraging collaboration and critical thinking. Enter Snorkl , an AI-powered whiteboard tool that allows students to interact with historical content by annotating images, adding text, drawings, or even recording their voices.

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Education Week - Social Studies

APRIL 9, 2025

The agency made grants for professional development and supported nationwide history education programs. Now these offerings may disappear.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Providing better civics and history education and job training opportunities to our youth is an essential start. But we also urgently need more applied learning that connects students’ problem-solving to their communities, a more equitable system of school financing and much greater investment in teachers and education professionals.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

In the coming months, Stanford’s History Education Group plans to release materials to help teachers do so. This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Media literacy is often defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create and communicate information or media.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For a long portion of their history, education schools didn’t have to think much about recruitment. “We We just said, ‘Here we are, come, we’re ready for you,’” says Stan Harward, the associate dean of Utah Valley University’s College of Education. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Arizona State University, for example, is rapidly increasing the number of online courses in its continuing and professional education division, which confers both badges and certificates.

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History Education Tradition History Research 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 30, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our second class of Zinn Education Project Prentiss Charney fellows for the 2024–2026 school years. The fellowship offers support for a cohort of people’s history educator leaders to study, learn, and organize together for two years.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to peoples history educators. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2025. Visit the NEH website to browse all of the 2025 summer programs.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. For a list of locations and activities, click here.

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Doing Social Studies

JANUARY 27, 2022

This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Geography Economics 67

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators. The deadline to apply is March 5, 2024. Visit the NEH website to browse all of the 2024 summer programs.

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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

JUNE 6, 2024

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.

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Digital Promise

JULY 2, 2018

When the Stanford History Education Group released findings showing that most students couldn’t tell sponsored ads from real articles, among other miscues, it intensified the scramble for tools and strategies to help students discern better. Read the original version here.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

Position Overview: The American Social History Project/Center for Media & Learning (ASHP/CML) is seeking a resourceful project director, with strong organizational and fundraising skills and an interest in public history and history education as an Assistant Director for Digital Projects to develop and produce a wide range of educational materials (..)

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Diane Ravitch

JUNE 20, 2021

“This study is not an indictment of the students—they did what they’ve been taught to do—but the study should be troubling to anyone who cares about the future of democracy,” said Joel Breakstone, director of the Stanford History Education Group and the study’s lead author. “We

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Stanford History Education Group

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

SUNY Will Teach Students to Ethically Use AI lee_2 Mon, 02/03/2025 - 17:27 01/16/25 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 21, 2022

Media Literacy is Desperately Needed in Classrooms Around the Country, Advocates Say kerrd Mon, 03/21/2022 - 10:03 03/18/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

MARCH 25, 2022

How Improving Civic Literacy Can Reinforce Democracy kerrd Fri, 03/25/2022 - 10:03 03/25/22 [link]

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Stanford History Education Group

JANUARY 10, 2025

Sam Wineburg Among Most Top Scholars of Curriculum, Teaching, & Learning lee_2 Fri, 01/10/2025 - 16:55 01/10/25 [link]

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