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. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. In Florida, Gov. This is a national call.

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Most had a history of school disciplinary infactionsactions. Teach SEL Skills Socio-emotional learning is demonstrated to help reduce violence and make schools safer. Let’s invest in teaching our children how to love. Nearly all experienced negative home-life factors. Most communicated their intent to attack.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As the American Academy of Arts and Science’s 2013 “The Heart of the Matter” report observes, connecting these fields is necessary to solve the world’s biggest problems such as “the provision of clean air and water, food, health, energy, universal education, human rights, and the assurance of physical safety.”.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

Prior to joining APSA in 2007, Mealy taught at Wellesley College in the Political Science Department from 2003-2006, where she offered courses in American politics and Black Politics, and advised students on careers and postgraduate studies as a teaching fellow and a Visiting Assistant Professor.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We felt the pulse, the affective reality of what US funds support, teach, and hope for: communal destruction for economic profit. We peeled ourselves out of the plastic chairs and community members made a triumphant effort to teach us awkward, shy gringos how to dance. This gives the appearance that the hearts were shot from the gun.

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MPSA

OCTOBER 12, 2021

They expanded the entries on the Constitution of Ghana as well as Human rights in Ethiopia. They created the entry on Settler colonialism in Canada , describing the important history of the displacement and mistreatment of Canada’s indigenous populations by European settlers. Helaine has a Ph.D.

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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. Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host an information table or event to defend the right to #TeachTruth including about Palestine and the rights of LGBTQ+ students.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. Many Mississippi residents say their schools did not teach them important civil rights topics.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. Because these were some people that I'd known for a long time and so I was like, OK, I guess they really don't know what I teach and who I am. and in its schools. Asian Americans were often celebrated “for holding the formula for success” (p.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist, I often find myself in settings where discussing Palestine, or even mentioning my identity as a Palestinian American, presents more challenges than when I worked in the field of human rights and law. These attacks frequently go beyond the curriculum and become personal. Do you mean Israel?”

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 25, 2024

(Pat Nabong/ Sun-Times ) As Jesse Hagopian writes in the Teach Palestine issue of Rethinking Schools , “the grim reality is that not even the schools have been saved from being turned into cemeteries.” history young people have protested to demand justice in the United States and around the world. Source: Denver Post Through U.S.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

I regularly offer a course at my university called Teaching the Holocaust: History and Memory. Others separate out Israel as a legal issue or a human rights issue. The ways in which these questions are eventually answered by the Department of Education will have implications for how history is taught in schools”.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 6, 2024

However, across the country, legislatures have passed laws to criminalize teaching honestly about U.S. history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. SNCC veteran Judy Richardson said at a Teach Truth rally last year that we organize so that “The fascists can’t stop us!” Who and Where?

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Political Science Now

JULY 17, 2024

APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 APSA awards ! DISSERTATION AWARDS Gabriel A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story of a fictional little girl named Heather with two moms enraged conservative families , who were dead-set against a Rainbow curriculum that included teaching social issues in classrooms. So here we are again, with echoes of the Scopes trial a century ago when Tennessee tried to ban the teaching of evolution.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 31, 2024

Embed from Getty Images In addition to Freedom Schools, the civil rights activists (most in their late teens or early 20s) organized a Freedom Theater ; a Medical Committee for Human Rights ; a legal committee ; a motor fleet ; primary elections; a WATTS communication line; a system of daily check-ins to ensure everyone was safe; and much more.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Rereading what I wrote then about deaf students at the ASDC while witnessing the flattening of Gaza 10 years later feels chilling—a visceral reminder that the history of Palestine, as numerous commentators have observed , did not begin on October 7, 2023. Deaf Palestinians embody sumud , steadfastness in the face of unrelenting violence.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 10, 2024

Below is a lesson, author talks, children’s books, the plight of health care in Gaza, and this day in people’s history entries. Author Linda Villarosa discussed her book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation , in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online series. Who’s to Blame?

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Seeing the actual site where the Declaration was signed gave everyone a sense of place, grounding our conversation in the moment of 1776 and shifting attention from Halloween to history. They carefully planned a way to explain why they wanted to be free and what they believed about human rights.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2023

And I'm happy doing what I'm doing, teaching students, helping them develop their critical thinking skills. In this job, you can combine your love of journalism with teaching. Where did you get your love of teaching? So teaching, it's not new to me. By doing this job, it's just like, I'm in heaven.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A Landscape of Discriminatory Policies and Hostile Environments According to the Human Rights Campaign , this has been the “worst year in recent history for LGBTQ state legislative attacks,” with nearly 40 states introducing 238 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills in just the first three months of 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

But as the Trump administration steps up arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants — including those with no criminal history who were previously considered low priority — sanctuary coalitions are spreading across the country, with more than 1,100 congregations participating. The Thompsons came to the U.S. from Jamaica in 2004.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For instance, in 2021 for the first time in its 200-year history the UK Census allowed people the option to state their sexual orientation and gender identity. They are fundamentally values of human rights that are shared amongst vast numbers of the world’s population. A vote represents a voice. References Wilson, H.,

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

No doubt, there is a long history of violence in the region — including the Oct. One cannot understand this tragedy without acknowledging its history. While many education groups provide resources for teaching about the crisis as a “conflict” rooted in antisemitism and Islamophobia, that sole emphasis is misleading.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

The following day, at a United Nations’ luncheon, First Lady Melania Trump said, “By our own example we must teach children to be good stewards of the world they will inherit…We must remember that they are watching and listening… As adults we are not merely responsible. We are accountable.”. We need a team. Muhammad Ali held the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He’s dead.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. You have to know your history to understand where you are coming from. This time, a man getting off the train walked up to them.

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