Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 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. In many places, it takes immense courage for an educator to participate in our program. Here are highlights from the remarks. They want to hurt trans kids.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“In Virginia, Youngkin can’t begin to do what Ron DeSantis can do in Florida on questions of ‘wokeness,’ because there is a Democratic Senate majority that is blocking much of Youngkin’s preferred agenda,” said Stephen Farnsworth, the director of the Center for Leadership and Media Studies at the University of Mary Washington.

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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.

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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.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Tw, Kellie Carter Jackson, and more Hosted 75 new Teaching for Black Lives teacher study groups , bringing our total to more than 400 in 45 states Selected the second cohort of the peoples history teacher leadership fellowshipnamed for education activists C.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In the limited time they did have, Cousineau and several colleagues identified dozens of problems with the new curriculum, from historically misleading statements to the continued issue of the century-plus gap in history education.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school. The event hosts can point out that teachers are trying to share this history, but they face censorship from anti-history education laws and Executive Orders.

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