If political leaders across the country are looking for more evidence that they are justified in banning The 1619 Project curriculum in schools they can refer to comments made by the Project's own creator, Nikole Hannah-Jones, on December 26, during the Sunday show line-up, on NBC's Meet the Press.
Then in tweets that insisted that all critics henceforth engage only with her new book The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, a 600-page expansion, she admitted that the original project, upon which the lessons are based, is flawed.
If one follows the nonprofit Pulitzer Center which developed the lessons, and pushed them into schools with contests, payments to teachers, and webinars-several of them featuring Hannah-Jones-it becomes apparent that teaching The 1619 Project has taken off like wildfire.
On February 18, 2021, alongside Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, she was featured in a "Webinar for Educators: Examining Essays from The 1619 Project with Nikole Hannah-Jones." A week later, on February 25, 2021, she participated in an event called "Panelists Give Advice on How to Teach Black History to Elementary and Middle School Students" with LaGarrett King, director, University of Missouri Carter Center for K-12 Black History Education.
Most recently on December 13, Hannah-Jones was featured in a webinar called "Teaching the 1619 Project: A Virtual Event for Educators and Librarians." The webinar offered tips for skirting laws and announced an event in February that would present student work and share information about "How teachers have protected themselves." Calling the anti-1619 Project legislation "Memory laws," Hannah-Jones expressed gratitude to "The educators" for their courage and desire "To teach what is not easy to teach to your children, because you know that our children deserve to be taught a truer version of what this country is We have choice and agency - all of us - in the country that we want to build".
The Pulitzer Center article about that webinar advertised the upcoming conference and bragged that "The first cohort of the Network has grown to 41 teams of four to 10 educators representing 21 states. There are now 170 teachers and administrators working on units utilizing 1619 materials that align to many subjects and grade levels." Teachers were encouraged to use the lesson plans created by the Pulitzer Center and through the Network as an "Entry point into the project."
Will these be updated to reflect the second draft of the 1619 Project, the one historians should now consult, as Hannah-Jones demands?
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