The NEA teamed up with a 1960s radical’s

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organization to push anti-American lessons on children

saw this starting in the early 70’s… stuff I had been taught in grade school began to change…

they were turning things away or completely around…

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"The National Education Association is peddling radical leftist propaganda to America’s youngest students.

Parents trusted teachers to educate their children about reading, writing, and arithmetic.

But the nation’s largest teachers union teamed up with a 1960s radical’s organization to push anti-American lessons on children as young as pre-K.

The National Education Association partnered with an organization named after Howard Zinn that registered more than 176,000 teachers who downloaded over 765,000 lessons promoting radical social justice activism to students.¹

Zinn was a self-described anarchist and “democratic socialist” who wrote “A People’s History of the United States” — a book historians across the political spectrum condemned as historically inaccurate propaganda.²

The Zinn Education Project offers lesson plans to teachers of students as young as pre-Kindergarten that push radical leftist views on American history.

The propaganda machine targeting America’s children

Zinn’s book portrays American history as an uninterrupted story of oppression and genocide from Columbus through the present day.

The book sold over 2.6 million copies despite being denounced by prominent historians as "distorted, manipulative, and plain dishonest."³

Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels called it “a truly execrable, anti-factual piece of disinformation” after Zinn’s death in 2010.⁴

Conservative scholars weren’t the only ones criticizing Zinn’s work.

Even liberal historians like Martin Duberman admitted the book presents “a partial and thereby distorted account” that "has been justly criticized as leaving out too much."⁵

Stanford education professor Sam Wineburg noted the book appeals to teenagers’ “inner Holden Caulfield” by portraying America’s heroes as “shameless frauds” and parents and teachers as "conniving liars."⁶

But the NEA doesn’t care about accuracy or balance.

The union partnered with the Zinn Education Project to host an annual “Teach Truth Day of Action” that promotes lessons on "voting rights, climate change, LGBTQ+ rights, women’s issues, labor rights, and more."⁷

Notice what’s missing from that list — reading, writing, math, or science."

more on site…

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There has to be something we can do to fix this. Blaming the left is not a solution.
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The NEA has formed a formal partnership with the Zinn Education Project (ZEP), an organization named in his honor that promotes his historical perspective and teaching methods.

This collaboration is primarily focused on promoting a “people’s history” curriculum in K-12 classrooms and advocating for “truth in education” amid current debates about how U.S. history is taught.

Key aspects of the NEA’s teaming with the Zinn Education Project include:

  • Curriculum Resources: The ZEP, a collaboration between two other non-profits (Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), provides free, downloadable lesson plans and resources to teachers across the United States. These materials are based on the approach in Zinn’s book, A People’s History of the United States, which emphasizes the role of working people, women, people of color, and social movements in shaping history.
  • “Teach Truth” Campaign: The NEA co-sponsors the ZEP’s annual “Teach Truth Day of Action”. This initiative encourages educators to pledge to teach truthfully about U.S. history, including topics like structural racism and oppression, in defiance of anti-history education bills and book bans.
  • Advocacy: The NEA has pledged to join with the Zinn Education Project and Black Lives Matter at School to call for a national day of action to teach lessons about structural racism and oppression.

The partnership and the ZEP’s materials have generated both support from educators and criticism from some political commentators and other organizations who consider the curriculum “radical,” “anti-American,” or historically revisionist.

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What or where is the challenge in this article as you see it?

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Homeschool.

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…and remove funding to the NEA. (Unfortunately, unlikely at this time.)

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