Urgent: Help Defend Students Against Disinformation

The morning after election day I read to my students the line from Howard Zinn about how “what matters most is not who is sitting in the White House, but ‘who is sitting in.’” I told them I promised to “sit in” by teaching the truth no matter who is sitting in the White House. — 8th grade teacher, Oregon

Teaching truthfully is more important than ever. The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants and calls for “mass deportations.” Despite massive storms and extreme weather, the media largely ignores the climate crisis. Racist and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric are on the rise.

By Emily Simons via Media Justice.

While news outlets are shrinking or 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 impervious to misinformation.

That is why the right censors instruction with book bans and anti-CRT laws.

We offer lessons to teach truthfully, outside the textbook, on immigration, climate, Palestine, labor solidarity, voting rights, and more.

Educators, let us know how you use and adapt Zinn Education Project lessons.

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