Posted on 11/01/2025 7:35:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Public schools across the country are directing teachers to use curriculum resources from a nonprofit that teaches American history through the lens of racial and sexual oppression.
The Zinn Education Project (ZEP), named for the late radical 1960s professor Howard Zinn, pushes controversial resources and lesson plans to teachers for students as young as pre-K, all the way up to grade 12.
ZEP boasts that its curriculum has been adopted by more than 176,000 teachers, who have downloaded more than 765,000 lessons for their students, according to its website. The organization hosts a Teach Truth Day of Action annually, which is co-sponsored by the NEA, America's largest teachers union, and other organizations.
Zinn, who died in 2010, taught at Boston University from the early 1960s until his retirement in 1988. He was the author of "A People’s History of the United States," a book that teaches American history, beginning with Christopher Columbus' discovery of North America and into the 21st century, through a lens of racial and sexual oppression. The principles in his book serve as the benchmark for ZEP's lessons.
In 2003, Zinn described himself as, "Something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist."
New York City Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, encourages teachers to use ZEP resources to teach during Black History Month, Women’s History Month, Disability Pride Month and Pride Month.
"The Zinn Education Project also has compiled lesson ideas and relevant primary sources into a resource called 'Teaching with Seizing Freedom' that educators can use in their classrooms alongside the podcast," a Black History resources page on the school system's website says.
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The Noam Chomsky of American history.
BEYOND GRATEFUL FOR ONE ROOM SCHOOL EDUCATION—GRADE SCHOOL
In 2003, Zinn described himself as, “Something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist.”
People who describe themselves in such terms are just plain nucking futs and don’t know who the hell they are. They need to be kept away from others if not locked up entirely let alone prescribe curriculum to children.
So now we are into recycling hippie nut jobs?
In 2003, Zinn described himself as, “Something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist.”
That’s what a Communist says, when he doesn’t want people to know he’s a Communist.
The internal problems in country are many. The left has the judiciary, the schools, the MSM, etc.
We can’t look the other way and delude ourselves to think that we have won the battle. We are barely hanging on to the Senate and it is still jam packed with RINO neocons on the GOP side.
We still can’t get people off their butts to go vote in off year elections.
True as well.
At most the Bolsheviks had maybe 2% support in 1918 in Russia, but they had control of the ‘choke points’ and that’s what allowed them to seize power.
Zinn History, pushing the CCCP above all. It’s why the 1619 Project gets deep.
Freshly minted teachers would be born when...~2000? Even a teacher with 30 years in service would be born around 1970. Pretty scary.
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Zinn described himself as, “Something of an anarchist, something of a socialist. Maybe a democratic socialist.
For democrats whats not to like
“Conservatives have a lot of work to do at the national, state & local levels for reforming the school boards and the educational administrative state.”
It STILL blows me away that Zinn could title his history book starting with “A People’s...” and our side is like “Duh, I guess that’s ok”. The guy literally uses a Communist Term (People’s) on the FRONT COVER of the book, and Conservatives are like “Duh, I don’t see a problem with that”.
No wonder we can’t defeat this bunch, we’re TOO STUPID to do so.
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