#94 - History Standards, Reconstruction, and Teaching the Truth with Mimi Eisen!

At a time of heightened attacks on curriculum and increased efforts to obscure and whitewash the past, our teaching of history and the social sciences is as important as ever. Perhaps no era in American history is as critical to understanding our present challenges as the Reconstruction Era, so how well of a job are our state history standards doing in teaching the truth about this time period? This week we’re joined by the co-author of Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle, Mimi Eisen! Mimi is a historian and program manager for the Zinn Education Project, which promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including alarming new data about false abuse reports and predictable alarm about declining ACT scores. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 9:20 - False Alarms in Mandated Abuse Reporting 23:55 - ACT Scores Drop 35:30 - Mimi Eisen of the Zinn Education Project 1:12:50 - Familiar Face Recognized as CA TOY DO-NOW STORIES: Exclusive Data: Educators’ ‘Careless’ Child Abuse Reports Devastate Thousands of NYC Families ACT Scores Fall to Lowest Level In 30 Years More from our guest: The Zinn Education Project Report: Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat