California students will soon be required to learn media literacy as part of the state’s curriculum. The goal is to teach students to think critically about what they are reading online. Assembly Bill ...

When the internet became widely available, billions of people gained access to an extremely powerful tool without the necessary training to navigate it. The anonymous, monetized and viral nature of ...

Given today’s febrile news landscape, schools can’t afford to not put media and information literacy on the curriculum, says ...

Starting this year, California is making it a priority for public school students from kindergarten through high school to take media literacy courses, so they can spot factual news from fiction. San ...

The Great Neck Public Schools are implementing media and news literacy programs, which Assistant Superintendent for Secondary Curriculum and Instruction Stephen Lando is being used in every course ...

(NEXSTAR) – A lawmaker’s face-palm-worthy misunderstanding of a popular social media term went viral earlier this month—providing fodder for online comedians and sending teens scrambling to clear out ...

KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics in Kansas, Missouri and at the local level. Share your story idea with Charlie. Students in the Hickman Mills School District are helping other teens ...

Almost 70% of surveyed parents with 13- to 17-year olds at home believe teens have it harder compared to previous generations, the Pew Research Center found in an August poll. The reason, according to ...

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey will now require public schools to teach media literacy, in an effort to combat misinformation. Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed a bill that would implement media ...

(WHTM) — A new bill proposed in the Pennsylvania State Senate would establish a media literacy curriculum for students enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade to combat the rise of “fake news” in ...