Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. I executed the COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement activity with my 9th grade U.S. History students. Here are just a few.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania. As for the claim that Vermilion intends ‘to minimize teaching about the history of US race relations and LGBTQ issues,’ that is a slanderous and insulting accusation of bigotry that has been baselessly leveled against me.”

Education Policy 142

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

As Chris Tims, a high school teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, sees it, history education is about teaching students to synthesize diverse perspectives on the nation’s complicated past. and African American history. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. This story also appeared in NBC News.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics History American History 115