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All donations from today through Giving Tuesday will be matched up to $10,000 thanks to the generous support of Dave Colapinto, a former student of Howard Zinn’s at Boston University who defends whistleblowers.

Many non-profit education organizations get major corporate support. The Zinn Education Project (a project of Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change) does not. We depend on individual donors and family foundations — and a lot of volunteers.

As of November 2019, there are over 100,000 educators registered at the Zinn Education Project.

The National Endowment for the Humanities offers tuition-free opportunities for K-12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Deadline to apply for 2020 institutes is March 1, 2020.

The 1619 Project, a multiplatform effort by journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times, highlights the fundamental role slavery played in the United States’ development by commemorating the year in which the first enslaved Africans were brought to the new Virginia colony.

Submit your classroom story about any of the lessons found at the Zinn Education Project website and receive a free copy of 'Teaching When the World is on Fire', edited by Lisa Delpit.

After students study the history of Columbus, the first question is invariably, "Why are we celebrating this murderer with a holiday?"

Full-day workshop on teaching about the climate crisis on Nov. 21, 2019 at the University of Texas Austin College of Education.

Today, commemorating what promises to be the largest climate strike ever, Rep. Barbara Lee's office (D-Calif.) says she will officially introduce a House Resolution to support the teaching of climate change in schools throughout the United States.

We are heartened by pledges from teachers across the United States to teach about climate justice. Here is what some teachers said about why they took the pledge and/or how they plan to teach about the climate emergency.

We have posted a new lesson, "How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations," by high school teachers Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Alex Stegner, Chris Buehler, Angela DiPasquale, and Tom McKenna.

Join the Zinn Education Project staff and volunteers at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference in Austin, Texas from November 22-24. We will have a booth (#333) and offer people's history workshops.

Pledge to teach climate justice.

Submit a classroom story about a Zinn Education Project lesson and you will receive a copy of "Truth Has a Power of Its Own," courtesy of The New Press.

The last three years have told a story of continuous resistance. Although not yet strong enough to change the status quo, these growing movements point to a different, better future. We invite you to teach — in our classrooms and in the streets — the hope-inspiring maxim that “people make history.”

Our new lesson about redlining and housing segregation introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility — and contributed to the injustice of the modern wealth gap.

Teachers, teacher educators, and community activists are invited to attend the Northwest Conference on Teaching for Social Justice, Oct. 19, 2019, in Seattle, Washington.

We are seeking a Campaign Organizer to design the next phase of the Teach Reconstruction Campaign. (One year, part-time, contract position.)

With your help, we can create a movement to teach about the people's history of Reconstruction.

Poet and educator Clint Smith wrote reflections in a tweet thread after visiting young people in a juvenile detention center. His description of what has been missing from their formal education serves to explain the purpose of many of our lessons.