Sunday, March 25, 2012

Daily Kos: What Kids Aren't Learning

Daily Kos: What Kids Aren't Learning:


What Kids Aren't Learning

is the title of the kickoff session of a camoaign titled "Teaching Out Loud" being run by Teaching for Change,  and organization which
provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.
 It is dedicated to the idea that building social justice starts in the classroom.The subtitle of the campaign is Social Justice Teaching Shouldn't Be Silenced, and that of the particular event is History Under Attack And Why It Matters.
Teaching for Change runs the bookstores at the local DC area chain of restaurant/cafes, Busboys and Poets, with two locations in DC, one in Hyattsville MD, and one in Shirlington in Arlington County VA (where I live).
This was an important event, as well as a fundraiser for the work Teaching for Change does, which includes book author events at the restaurants and most notably the Zinn Education Project, which it runs in conjunction with