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. Sign up today. The group can be any size.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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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. In many places, it takes immense courage for an educator to participate in our program. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. The anti-history laws and book bans make a bad situation worse, as Bill Bigelow describes in, The Attack on Anti-Racist Teaching Attacks Environmental Justice Teaching. Defend the Freedom to Learn: June 8 and All Year Long Why a Day of Action?

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

More than 9,000 teachers signed up to access peoples history lessons in 2024 ,bringing our full registration at the Zinn Education Project to close to 170,000 teachers, with representation from every state. In this perilous time, please donate to defend teachers right to teach peoples history. No wonder the right is upset.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

And in one IB history class, she said a teacher had students pick cotton seeds off cotton plants to demonstrate the efficiency of the cotton gin, in an attempt to include multiple perspectives in his class. Samuels/The Hechinger Report Virginia’s rewrite of its history curriculum started off with heat and discord. Credit: Christina A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. Then there was the curriculum.

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