NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. As you know, history is not the past its the study of the past. Hello teachers.

Primary Sources 230

Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. web site from the National Endowment for the Humanities, including a very popular set for AP U.S. Let’s take maps, for example.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. Order yard signs for participants to take home.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills. The educator-led events received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. Attend meetings, vote, run for office. Sign up today.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. Additionally, the book was fascinating and engaging to read, and I really appreciate the Zinn Education Project for providing this book to me for free to add to my personal and professional library.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

This year many teachers and students are being attacked for speaking truthfully about Palestinians’ human rights. They are led by classroom teachers, teacher educators, librarians, NAACP chapters, unions, and more. Mary Beth Tinker, Tinker v. Des Moines plaintiff, addresses the need to defend “U.S. What to Say?

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Human Rights History Education 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In the following weeks, Cousineau recounted, the teachers drafting the American Studies course were told to halt their work, high school English teachers were told to stop writing a new humanities course, and a middle school reading curriculum set to receive final approval was pulled.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143