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The Zinn Education Project

History

 * 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.


 * June 2008: The first piece of programming from the Zinn Education Project was created when 4,000 teaching people's history packets were given to educators across the country. The packets included the DVD Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, a copy of A People’s History of the United States, and a specially developed teaching guide.


 * 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.


 * Summer 2010: At the request of the filmmakers, the Zinn Education Project produced the teaching guide for The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.

Funding
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.

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

In the News

 * In March, 2011 The Zinn Education Project got recognition from TeacherKen on the Daily Kos.


 * In the Winter of 2011, The War Resisters League magazine published an article about the Zinn Education Project by Bill Bigelow.


 * 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.


 * In September of 2010 the Zinn Education Project received praise in the Language Arts Journal.


 * 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.


 * In May 2010 Yes! Magazine featured resources from the Zinn Education Project.


 * ZNet featured a story about the power of Howard Zinn as a teacher in April 2010.


 * In January 2010 the San Fransico Chronicle featured a story about Howard Zinn.


 * In 2009, the Huffington Post featured the work of the Zinn Education Project.