Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do

Young people deserve to learn honest history—history that is accurate, comprehensive and inclusive of perspectives beyond traditional, dominant narratives. Our newest resource guide, Advocating for Teaching Honest History: What Educators Can Do, offers concrete tools for educators seeking to ensure the right of future generations to an accurate accounting of our nation’s history. Despite the current proliferation of troubling laws and policies seeking to erase or gloss over parts of American history, educators can advocate for students’ access to honest history. These resources offer guidance for how to approach teaching and advocating for honest history education in the classroom, with families, with colleagues, with school and district leaders, and in the community at large.