The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants to justify mass deportations. That’s one reason why we must teach truthfully.
Despite massive storms and extreme weather, the media largely ignores the climate crisis. Racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, and antisemitic rhetoric are on the rise.
While news outlets are shrinking and often unreliable, and disinformation proliferates on social media, school is where students can learn to think critically and read stories from history that shed light on today. Students can become innoculated against misinformation.
That is why the right censors instruction with book bans and anti-history education laws.
In How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Jason Stanley said, “In antidemocratic systems, the function of education is to produce obedient citizens.”
Our goal is the opposite. We offer lessons to teach truthfully, outside the textbook — on immigration, climate, labor solidarity, and more. Our lessons encourage students to ask questions, to think critically, and to ask who loses and who benefits from policies in history and today.
We rely on your donations so we can continue to offer all our lessons for free and defend teachers’ right to use them.
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