To encourage more teaching about the history of prison uprisings and implications for today, the Zinn Education Project is collecting stories of how teachers introduce Attica in the classroom. If you have a lesson or teaching story about the Attica Prison Uprising, please share your story.
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Five years after former governor Mitch Daniels tried to ban Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States from Indiana schools, the Zinn Education project was able to offer three workshops to dozens of educators throughout the state
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Last month, West Virginia teachers inspired us with your victorious nine-day statewide strike. From the national media coverage, one of the things that struck us at the Zinn Education Project was the power of teacher stories.
From Oklahoma to Kentucky and across the country teachers everywhere are eager to learn from the recent struggle in West Virginia, and we want to help amplify those stories.
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The Make Reconstruction History Visible project is an opportunity for students and teachers to identify and advocate for public recognition of Reconstruction history in their community and the significant accomplishments made by newly freed people and their white allies.
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On April 24, close to 100 D.C. area educators filled the Blackburn Center at Howard University for a teach-in on the hidden history and relevance today of Reconstruction. The event was hosted by the Howard University School of Education, Teaching for Change’s D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice, and the Zinn Education Project as part of the Zinn Education Project campaign to teach Reconstruction.
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From #MeToo to the Movement for Black Lives to the victorious West Virginia teachers’ strike, women continue to be on the front lines fighting for justice.
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On February 19, the NPR 1A radio show addressed the question of “How Do You Teach Slavery?” with Adam Sanchez, Zinn Education Project curriculum writer/teacher organizer.
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How do you teach about housing discrimination in the North? Tell us, using excerpts from Richard Rothstein's articles or book, The Color of Law, or Linda Christensen's lesson, "Stealing Home: Eminent Domain, Urban Renewal, and the Loss of Community."
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Colin Kaepernick asked for our help to get A People's History of the United States into the hands of young people at his Know Your Rights Camp.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) issued a report which highlights how schools inadequately teach the history of enslavement in the United States.
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Building on the 2016 Black Lives Matter day of action in Seattle, next week, February 5-9, educators across the country will take part in "Black Lives Matter at School Week."
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Journalist Avis Thomas-Lester interviews teachers on how they address Reconstruction in the classroom on this 150th anniversary.
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In November and December 2017, the Zinn Education Project hosted People’s History Trivia Nights in San Francisco and Washington, D.C., raising more than $4,300 for our work in 2018. At both events, everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves while learning non-trivial people’s history.
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In 2017, we hired our first full-time organizer to offer people’s history workshops for teachers (with a focus on the Reconstruction era) and to write lessons and articles.
This fall we offered workshops in five cities to help teachers better use our people's history resources and to knit together face-to-face network of social justice teachers. Now we need your support to continue this work.
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For almost 10 years, the Zinn Education Project (ZEP) has offered teachers the resources — and encouragement — to “teach outside the textbook.” In these times, our work to equip young people with critical thinking skills has never been more important.
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This year a team of educators, authors, and activists joined the Zinn Education Project to help with outreach on #GivingTuesday.
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On Monday, The Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy spoke with students and teachers in D.C. who are studying Native American history with lessons from the Zinn Education Project.
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For Veterans Day in 2017, the Koch Brothers funded Bill of Rights Institute released a lesson for schools called, "Pat Tillman and Self Sacrifice: A Different Direction." The lesson exploits the memory of NFL player Tillman, much as the U.S. government did soon after he was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004.
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What do we want the world to look like when today's high school students graduate? What do students need to learn to become engaged citizens changing their communities and the world for the better? This past year has revealed starkly different possible futures.
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By Adam Sanchez
Earlier this week, Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, stated on Fox News that Confederate General Robert E. Lee was an “honorable man” who fought “for his state” and that “the lack of an ability to compromise . . . on both sides" led to the Civil War.
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The Zinn Education Project had a booth at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference (NCSS) on Nov. 17-18 and at the Howard Zinn Book Fair, Nov. 19. Both events were in the Bay Area.
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By Amy Graff, SFGATE
For decades, every American kid in a schoolyard has known Christopher Columbus as the Italian explorer who "in 1492, sailed the ocean blue." But that little ditty is being phased out faster than you can name the explorer's three ships.
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The climate crisis will not announce itself with one giant catastrophic event. No. It will build, as it has this past month, with hurricanes, destroyed homes, flooding, polluted water and air, power outages, wildfires, droughts, and extreme heat. Nor will the effects of the climate crisis be distributed equally throughout the world.
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Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools curriculum editor and Zinn Education Project co-director, wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Times in response to their August 26, 2017, article about statues and Columbus. The following letter was published on September 3, 2017.
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As the school year gets underway, we share this tool kit to help you bring people’s history to the classroom. Resources include popular lessons, articles, recommended reading, education news, campaigns, and more!
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