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Labor History Censored on Labor Day

Zinn Education Project

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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Teach About Immigration

Zinn Education Project

Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico Mexico War. Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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Commemorate International Workers’ Day

Zinn Education Project

What could be more important for our students than to learn that progress toward greater justice in the world has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it? But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of anti-history laws and high-stakes testing. Learn more.

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‘Black At’ Instagram accounts put campus racism on display

The Hechinger Report

Similar accounts have popped up at elite, private K-12 schools. If you’re wondering if you can say the N-word, Black at Tulane has a detailed Instagram story explaining the history of the word and who should and shouldn’t say it. Since launching on June 12, Dear PWI has more than 20,000 followers.

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Beyond Wildfires: 13th Amendment and Incarcerated Labor

Zinn Education Project

The film includes the history of convict leasing, the Jim Crow era disenfranchisement and lynching of African Americans, the war on drugs, and the prison-industrial complex. The post Beyond Wildfires: 13th Amendment and Incarcerated Labor appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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OPINION: What if everything we believe about education is a lie?

The Hechinger Report

If there was ever a time to ask big, heretical questions about American K-12 education, it’s when schooling has been thrown into chaos by a pandemic, and Americans’ faith in institutions, including schools, is at ebb tide. This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. Maybe they never will.

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