Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

It is important that we are in touch with all the site coordinators so we can offer support and resources. Sign Up to Host an Event 3.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. In contrast, James K. A textbook problem.

K-12 94

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 94

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. It is what inspired them to pursue a career in education.

K-12 117

K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 117

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

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Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Museum Archiving 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Teaching Resources Lessons and Articles About K–12 Lessons and teaching stories on Palestine and Israel from Rethinking Schools and the Zinn Education Project website. A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, after events including the mass shooting two years earlier that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, New Hampshire passed a law requiring instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides in grades 8 through 12. Kingswood social studies teacher Kimberly Kelliher is among them.

Teaching 145

Teaching Social Studies High School History 145