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The Zinn Education Project

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Zinn Education Project

History

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  • 2007: A former student of Howard Zinn watched the documentary about Zinn's life, Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. The documentary reminded the student of his time at Boston University in the 1970s when he listened to Zinn lecture and how Zinn's message had stayed with him through life. After being reinvigorated by the documentary, he made contact with Zinn and asked how he could get involved in spreading a "people's history" to students across the United States. Zinn put the former student in contact with Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change, and the Zinn Education Project was born.
  • December 2009: The website launched with over 75 free down-loadable teaching activities and hundreds of books, films, and posters.
  • Spring 2010: Stories were collected from teachers around the country about how they teach a people's history. 88 teachers submitted essays into a competition, and 21 teacher's classrooms received sets of A People's History of the United States.

Funding

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The former student of Zinn's who contacted him about helping spread "a people's history" across the country became an anonymous donor to help the Zinn Education Project. The Caipirinha Foundation, the foundation of the anonymous donor, along with the support of over 30 individuals serves as the financial backing for the Zinn Education Project.[3]

In 2011, the Zinn Education Project was choosen as one of 40 organizations for the Working Assets/Credo Funding Ballot.[4]


In the News

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  • In March, 2011 The Zinn Education Project got recognition from TeacherKen on the Daily Kos. [5]
  • Sam Chaltain in the Huffington Post reminds readers of the power of Zinn's A People's History and encourages readers to visit the Zinn Education Project.[7]
  • At the start of the 2010 school year, the Zinn Education Project delivered textbooks to teachers around the country. The Fox News station in San Antonio picked up a story about the textbooks.[9]
  • ZNet featured a story about the power of Howard Zinn as a teacher in April 2010.[11]

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