Thursday, February 4, 2010

Big Hollywood Blog Archive HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Instructing Teachers to Disobey Education Codes

Big Hollywood Blog Archive HOWARD ZINN’S LEGACY: Instructing Teachers to Disobey Education Codes


“[Howard Zinn] was a treasure and an inspiration. That he was considered radical says way more about this society than it does about him.” -  Bob Herbert 
Public school children are innocent victims of a radical “guerrilla warfare” being waged by the late professor Howard Zinn’s Zinn Education Project (ZEP), Rethinking Schools Magazine, and Teaching for Change
These anti-establishment educators’ mission includes curriculum-subversion in order to radically transform schools into centers of social justice wherein  students are trained to become global citizenchange agents
Perpetuating Zinn’s revolutionary mission, his surviving business partners proclaimed
Howard Zinn, in honor of the marvelous victory of your life, we will act in defiance of all that is bad around us and attempt to spin the world towards justice. 
With the national spotlight on History Channel’s “The People Speak” and its ZEP curriculum — parents, teachers, school boards and administrators should beware of the celebrity-opiate being dealt to their schoolchildren by way of Zinn-doctrination. 
ZEP is the brainchild of the late Boston University professor Howard Zinn and Bill Bigelow, Curriculum Director for Rethinking Schools.