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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

Breck Foster High School Social Studies Teacher, Lake Oswego, Oregon Last year was my first year teaching World History and I was in need of high quality simulations to help my students understand and engage their critical thinking.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

At the new board’s first meeting in January 2022, members of its new majority attacked proposed AP World History textbooks for not focusing enough on the “meat and potatoes of history,” and complained that elementary social studies didn’t adequately “focus on the greatness of America.” Then there was the curriculum.

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Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies?

The Hechinger Report

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. At this point, I’m going to be very hesitant,” said Catherine Mein, an Iowa world history teacher. “At This story also appeared in NBC News.