Lies My Teacher Told Me Author Has New Book
Teaching What Really Happened: How To Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History is James Loewen’s follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Howard Zinn says, “James Loewen’s new book is not only a devastating critique of how our nation’s history has been taught in our schools, but also a wonderful guide to how the teaching of history can open up minds, excite the imagination, and educate a new generation dedicated to making this a better world.” Read the Table of Contents and a sample chapter here.
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Saturday, February 4th at 7:12 Today is the birthday of Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (Feb. 4, 1913 – Oct. 24, 2005). Below is a key article by Herbert Kohl from Rethinking Schools that challenges the myths prevalent in children's books and textbooks about Rosa Parks. Here is a link to more resources about Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott: http://zinnedproject.org/posts/tag/rosaparks
The Politics of Children’s Literature: What’s Wrong with the Rosa Parks Myth
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Aritcle. By Herbert Kohl. 6 pages. A critical analysis that challenges the myths in children’s books about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Saturday, February 4th at 0:40 via ColorLines Magazine People have taken to Twitter to talk about the histories they wish they'd learned about in high school. Use: #WishiLearnedinHS
Pay Attention! Ethnic Studies #WishiLearnedinHS Curriculum Hits Twitter - COLORLINES
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Educational policies start trending on Twitter.
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Friday, February 3rd at 7:25 On this day in 1944, U.S. forces invaded and took control of the Marshall Islands. Who was living there? What is the status of the islands today? The Insular Empire: America in the Marianas is a powerful film on the U.S. colonies in the western Pacific.
Suggestion: ask your students - "Does the U.S. have colonies?" Let us know how they respond.
The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands
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The Insular Empire is a one-hour PBS documentary about America’s colonies in the western Pacific. Six thousand miles west of California, the Mariana Islands include the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (or CNMI). Although most Americans don’t believe t...
