{"id":1674274,"date":"2022-10-05T14:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674274"},"modified":"2022-10-05T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T18:22:58","slug":"celine-ryan-ciccio-pulitzer-center-recruits-college-students-to-develop-1619-project-afterschool-program-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/celine-ryan-ciccio-pulitzer-center-recruits-college-students-to-develop-1619-project-afterschool-program-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Ryan Ciccio: Pulitzer Center Recruits College Students to Develop &#8220;1619 Project&#8221; Afterschool Program for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fceline-ryan-ciccio-pulitzer-center-recruits-college-students-to-develop-1619-project-afterschool-program-for-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1674274&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<div class=\"advertisment pb-5 text-center\"><\/div>\n<p>The Pulitzer Center is advertising a paid internship to college students in education programs who are willing to push the debunked, anti-American \u201c1619 Project\u201d on K12 students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur K-12 education team works with schools to bring pressing underreported issues, and the journalists who cover them, into the classroom,\u201d reads the job post for the position titled \u201cK-12 Education Program Intern (The 1619 Project).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur resources engage global reporting across all media platforms and focus on a wide range of topics, including climate change, migration and refugees, racial justice, health, and many more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The internship opportunity is currently advertised to education students at American universities, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.usc.edu\/jobs\/pulitzer-center-on-crisis-reporting-k-12-education-program-intern-the-1619-project\/\">University of Southern California<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/careerservices.upenn.edu\/jobs\/category\/internship\/\">University of Pennsylvania<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to helping to plan and promote a virtual \u201c1619 Project Education Conference,\u201d the hire will be expected to aid in the development of programming for \u201cThe 1619 Project Education Network, Teacher Fellowships, and a growing <a href=\"https:\/\/pulitzercenter.org\/builder\/lesson\/1619-project-resources-afterschool-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">afterschool program<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of one of the afterschool program&#8217;s introduction modules, &#8220;Students evaluate how the values stated in the Declaration of Independence have manifested in U.S. society, and examine what it would mean to reframe U.S. history by considering 1619 the country\u2019s founding date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Later, students learn &#8220;about the ways in which slavery\u2019s legacy persists in U.S. systems,&#8221; and &#8220;learn about common inaccuracies in how slavery is taught&#8221; by other parties.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Critical Race Theorist Nikole Hannah-Jones, <i>The New York Times<\/i>\u2019 \u201c1619 Project\u201d has been widely criticized and repeatedly debunked based on its false assertion that the American Revolution was fought in order to preserve the institution of slavery, and claims such as \u201cout of slavery grew nearly everything that has truly made America exceptional: its economic might, its industrial power, its electoral system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, when Hannah-Jones asked Leslie M. Harris, a Black history professor to fact-check the project\u2019s particularly problematic essay before its publication, Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=14822\">flagged<\/a> the portion about slavery being the motivation for American independence as untrue. <i>The New York Times<\/i> and Hannah-Jones published it anyway.<\/p>\n<p>It later went on to win a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/04\/the-only-pulitzer-the-1619-project-deserved-was-for-fiction\/\">Pulitzer Prize<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as the project\u2019s falsifications remain false, the Pulitzer Center is working to engrain the prized propaganda into the general education of the youngest generation, as early as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pulitzer Center is excited to partner with afterschool educators in using <i>The 1619 Project<\/i> resources to spark their students\u2019 creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, and media literacy skills. Explore engaging activities for afterschool spaces, opportunities to connect with journalists, and professional learning opportunities,\u201d reads a <a href=\"https:\/\/1619education.org\/community\/afterschool-education-programs\">description<\/a> of the after-school program.<\/p>\n<p>Specific resources are provided on the program\u2019s website for elementary, middle, and high school. They \u201cgive various entry points into exploring multimedia components and text excerpts from \u2018The 1619 Project\u2019 in order to spark students\u2019 creativity, teamwork, critical thinking, and media literacy skills.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pulitzer Center is advertising a paid internship to college students in education programs who are willing to push the debunked, anti-American \u201c1619 Project\u201d on K12 students. \u201cOur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1674276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1674276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}