Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

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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Zinn Education Project

JULY 20, 2024

Historian John Avery Dittmer (October 30, 1939 – July 19, 2024) was the author of key texts on the SNCC and grassroots organizing in Mississippi, including Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi and The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care.

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Social Justice Human Rights Humanities History 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

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. Among the recommended reads are “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo and “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Books: School leadership for social justice. By themselves, they are not enough. They require context, dialogue, and action, but they are a start.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. Credits Installation at the NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 14, 2025

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2023

Related Hechinger Reads: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve Lessons about Native American history are at risk of disappearing What do classroom conversations about race, identity and history really look like?

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K-12 Social Justice American History History 144

Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 20, 2024

Now they’re gerrymandering our history to undermine our ability to link our present to the past. ” By Jim Peppler, Alabama Department of Archives and History A unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for today’s struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights. As Kimberlé W.

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Oral History Teaching Archiving Social Justice 98

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

Job Skills in History Classes The ideas previously described work great in a careers class, but what if you teach history, social studies, or even language arts instead? President (or leader of your respective country), a famous inventor, a social justice activist, or even a character in a book your students have read about.

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Middle School Teaching Social Justice Social Studies 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

There are many things in history that do not have two equal opposing sides: slavery, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, segregation, etc. Educators should help students understand how oppressors justified their actions in history without giving credit to their arguments. Leadership for social justice: Class update 1.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In August, students in the Racial Justice Coalition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst met with senior administration officials to ask for a new social-justice general education requirement, but their request was denied, said Zach Steward, a junior studying African American studies and legal studies. history course.”

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Social Justice History Teaching Education 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Ignoring the deep history between civil rights organizations and organized labor, reformers have charged the NAACP with working alongside unions as if corporate America has done black folk many favors. “If If we’ve learned anything from the history of black education, it is that dual systems don’t work.”.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Your history course may not specify that you are gaining skills in research, writing and evaluation logic. Another success story that comes to mind is from a provider that is partnering with a social justice nonprofit to help give internship opportunities to students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. government as well. We could play Fantasy Geography.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Together, PUC and LMU designed a program that is centered on social justice theory and includes a focus on how teachers can create more equitable schools and classrooms, according to Leslie Chang, PUC Schools superintendent for instruction and leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kimberlé Crenshaw stated that in its original formulation, Intersectionality worked to expose “ how single-axis thinking undermines legal thinking, disciplinary knowledge production, and struggles for social justice.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

Will history repeat? Former Florida governor and now senator Rick Scott set up a task force that recommended public universities charge more for “non-strategic majors” such as history and English. “Is These programs started because of political pressures, and the political pressures are no longer there.” I don’t think so.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2018

We don’t like to think of social justice as a zero-sum game. A biased criminal justice system forces us to redefine “merit” when it comes to determining who earned or deserves a scholarship. A prisoner’s hands inside a punishment cell wing at Angola prison in Louisiana. Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images.

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Education Social Justice Humanities Cultures 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. If social justice is your aim, perhaps housing, health care, taxation and income may be more effective public policy levers than education. Related: What if public schools never reopen? The results have not rewarded our faith. Maybe they never will.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Troy Alim, who has been a social justice activist for the past several years, said he is inspired by the leadership of young Black students and agrees that most of the university statements are window dressing. The University of Mississippi, commonly known as Ole Miss, has a long, well-documented history of racism.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

Throughout history, we have seen how educational institutions show pervasive bias toward black and brown students. The ASCA School Counselor Professional Standards and Competencies require counselors to “use multicultural and social justice theories to promote equity and access for all students.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Supporting Teachers Through Intentional Community Building With most teachers leaving within five years of entering the profession, it is crucial to examine how to structure programs aimed at retaining them.

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Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, organizers will host more than 140 events on Saturday, June 8 and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

I prepared by selecting supporting books that would allow us to talk about identity, history, children’s voices and white privilege. Let’s not avoid them, because by bringing the discussions into our classrooms we create opportunities to celebrate joy, justice and equality.

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Social Justice Elementary School Humanities Leadership 98

Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

These schools often frame their efforts in social justice terms. For example, Launch’s manual states that “encouraging high aspirations in all our students” is meant to “reverse the social engineering of apartheid.” Driven by this critique, he returned to Launch as a history teacher with aims to help “decolonize classrooms.”

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 19, 2024

This approach to professional development recognizes teachers as intellectuals and brings people together from across the country to deepen their understanding of the vital history of the Black Freedom Struggle. Register today to reinvigorate your practice of teaching critically about issues of race, justice, and equity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

“It’s unprecedented,” said Geoffrey Young, the AAMC’s senior director for student affairs and programs, who compares it to another response to a traumatic moment in American history: the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Social Justice American History History High School 143

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. This year, I spent most of my time in a public-facing role representing Hawai?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

But our research team, comprised of HMoob-American college students and education researchers, uses the spelling “HMoob” to challenge the colonial history of this ethnic group that originated in southern China. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes.

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Women's History Network

AUGUST 12, 2024

This blog post explores the fundamental questions of why and how women in the Global South and North have resisted and become revolutionaries to establish social justice, equality, freedom, and rights. Reader discretion is advised. It also […]

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Social Justice 64

Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They also talked to APSA Educate about their passion for civic education, social justice, scholarly analysis, and interest in studying political science at the undergraduate level. Some of my favorite classes that I’ve taken are AP American History and AP Government.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Lewis (he/him/his) is an identity politics researcher, social justice activist, and Associate Professor of Political Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the historic Tuskegee University.

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