The Zinn Education Project joins the call for a National Day of Solidarity on Friday, October 12, 2012 with the Raza Defense Fund and the campaign to Save Ethnic Studies.
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Videos of major speakers at the special event on Sept. 21, 2011 to dedicate the Howard Zinn Room at Busboys and Poets.
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For 50 years, Milton Meltzer wrote over 100 history books for middle and high school school readers that did just that — they told the history of what everyday people make happen.
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When Marian Wright Edelman called to ask if we could help with the Youth Advocate…
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D.C. students wrote letters to the editor of The Washington Post to address the lack of coverage of the attack on ethnic studies in Tucson.
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Tiffany Mitchell, 7th grade history teacher at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., describes how her students spoke about the ban on ethnic studies in Tucson on Cesar Chavez Day.
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At the end of February, 120 9th-grade students and their teachers at E. L. Haynes…
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With the release of the Universal Pictures film, The Lorax, based on Dr. Seuss’s classic “environmental” book of the same name, we share an article by Bill Bigelow about the lessons children learn (and don’t learn) from the book and film about the causes of environmental ruin and how to organize for change.
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The Network of Teacher Activist Groups (TAG), a national coalition of grassroots teacher organizing groups, …
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By Jozi Zwerdling
Quezada and Benson were two of 16 educators referred by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change’s Zinn Education Project along with colleagues across the nation for the Civic Voices’ International Democracy Memory Bank Project. Civic Voices, administered by the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation (AFTEF), and funded by the U.S. Department of Education, is an “international civic education exchange program that involves teachers and students from around the world in preserving the legacy of their countries’ democratic struggles.” The Zinn Education Project was thrilled to introduce this extraordinary opportunity to educators. The highlight for them was a three-day seminar in Birmingham, Ala., in the fall of 2011.
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Seattle’s Garfield High School teacher Jesse Hagopian was arrested during an “Occupy the Capitol” protest…
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