The Zinn Education Projects Honors the Work of Howard Zinn

Kinaba — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:00:00 -0500

It has been our pleasure to play a role in the recent launch of the Zinn Education Project, which promotes the use of Howard Zinn's A People’s History of the United States in middle and high school classrooms across the country. As stated on the website:

The goal [of the Zinn Education Project] is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history than is found in traditional textbooks and curricula. The empowering potential of studying U.S. history is often lost in a textbook-driven trivial pursuit of names and dates. Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Students learn that history is made not by a few heroic individuals, but instead by people’s choices and actions and therefore students’ own choices and actions also matter.

We believe that through taking a more engaging and more honest look at the past, we can help equip students with the analytical tools to make sense of — and improve — the world today.

Working with Metamorphosis Media, we were able to quickly build the zinnedproject.org website for the Zinn Education Project using the Drupal platform. The Zinn Education Project is a collaborative effort by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change. As always, it is our pleasure to work on behalf of non-profit organizations and cause-related programs.

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The Zinn Education Projects Honors the Work of Howard Zinn