Reframing History: Mass Incarceration

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[3] Hey, everyone, we've been thinking a lot about what history is taught in school and how it's taught in school.

[4] Yeah, it's one of the reasons this show exists.

[5] We wanted to fill in the gaps of what we learned in history class and reframe some of the history, we did learn.

[6] So a few months ago, we started asking teachers for some of their favorite through -line episodes that do just that and that they'd like their students to hear before returning to school.

[7] Our hope was that ThruLine was of use, and we heard from many teachers who said that it was.

[8] This week...

[9] Hi, my name is Stephanie Coosler.

[10] I'm a teacher in California.

[11] My name is Jenna.

[12] I teach AP -U

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