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Rethinking Bilingual Education: Welcoming home languages in our classrooms

Teaching Guide. Edited by Elizabeth Barbian, Grace Gonzales, and Pilar Mejia. 344 pages. 2017. Rethinking Schools. This collection of articles reveals the many ways that teachers bring students’ home languages into their classroom.

Teaching for Black Lives Teacher Study Groups: 2022–2023

The Zinn Education Project is excited to announce another round of Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups, for the 2022–2023 school year.

Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes

Online classes for educators on the teaching the Black Freedom Struggle. People's historians interviewed by classroom teachers and teacher educators.

The Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex

Jesse Hagopian led a conversation with Garrett Felber, Safear Ness, and Stevie Wilson about the prison industrial complex, incarceration, and the history of resistance against that system.

Asian Americans in the People’s History of the United States

Profile. Brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people's history.

Films with a Conscience

Article. The films listed below are ones that can help students gain insights into how the world works. Many of these also alert students to how individuals and social movements have tried to make life better.

A Year Without Sundays (Un Año Sin Domingos)

Book — Non-fiction. By Catherine Murphy. 2014. and DVD.
Photos and stories about the highly successful Cuban literacy campaign of 1961.

50,000 Teachers Strong and Counting

In June, the Zinn Education Project reached the milestone of 50,000 teachers registered to download…

Project Highlights

Since launching in 2008, the Zinn Education Project has grown exponentially, reaching educators and activists across the United States and around the globe. This page features just a few of the project's annual highlights.

Women in Labor History

Profile. Zinn Education Project. Brief bios of two dozen women of note in the labor movement.

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Rethinking Multicultural Education: Teaching for Racial and Cultural Justice

Teaching Guide. Edited by Wayne Au. 418 pages. 2014 (2nd edition). Rethinking Schools. A Rethinking Schools collection of articles and lessons for multicultural, anti-racist, social justice education in K-12.

The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom

Book — Fiction. By Margarita Engle. 2010. 384 pages.
Bilingual book of historical fiction in verse about Cuba's long fight for independence in the 19th century.

The Zinn Education Project Responds to Mitch Daniels’ Attacks on Howard Zinn

On July 17, 2013 the Associated Press (AP) revealed that former Indiana Governor and current Purdue University President Mitch Daniels had tried to ban Howard Zinn’s writing, including A People’s History of the United States, in K-12 public schools. In a public statement on July 18, Purdue University stood by their president, stating that it is not an issue of censorship because it did not impact higher education, only K-12 public schools. In other words, academic freedom and censorship do not apply to K-12 teachers and students.

Side by Side/Lado a lado

Picture book. By Monica Brown and translation by Carolina Valencia. Illustrated by Joe Cepeda. 2010. 32 pages.
The life stories and activism of the two founders of the United Farm Workers (UFW), written and illustrated for young children.

Bus Riders Union

Film. Haskell Wexler. 2000. 86 minutes.
The Los Angeles Bus Riders Union's triumphant struggle to win better service.

Maquilapolis (City of Factories)

Film. Directed and produced by Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre. 2006. 68 minutes.
The impact of globalization as told through the lives of the women who experience it in Tijuana, Mexico.

500 Años del Pueblo Chicano – 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures

Book — Non-fiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 1991 (2nd Edition).
Chicano history as told through hundreds of pictures and bilingual text.

500 Years of Chicana Women’s History

Book — Non-fiction. By Elizabeth Martinez. 2007. 899 illustrations.
Stories and photos of Chicana/Mexican-American women in politics, labor, art, health, and more.

That's Not Fair! / No Es Justo! (Book) | Zinn Education Project: Teaching People's History

That’s Not Fair! Emma Tenayuca’s Struggle for Justice/¡No Es Justo!: La lucha de Emma Tenayuca por la justicia

Picture book. By Carmen Tafolla, Sharyll Tenayuca, and Celina Marroquin. 2008. 40 pages.
Bilingual (Spanish and English) biography of labor activist Emma Tenayuca for upper elementary.

Dzání Yázhí Naazbaa’: Little Woman Warrior Who Came Home

Picture book. By Evangeline Parsons Yazzie. Illustrated by Irving Toddy. 2005. 32 pages. Historical fiction for upper elementary about the Navajo Long Walk (forced removal by U.S. soldiers) of 1863-1864.

Chávez Ravine: A Record by Ry Cooder

Songs. By Ry Cooder. 2005. 70 min.
The story of the Chicano community bulldozed to pave the way for the Dodger Stadium in Santa Monica, told through bilingual songs.

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Rethinking School Reform: Views from the Classroom

Book – Non-fiction. Edited by Linda Christensen and Stan Karp. 350 pages. 2003. Rethinking Schools. This collection offers insights into a broad range of education issues, including vouchers and funding, multiculturalism, standards and testing, unions, bilingual education, and federal policy.