Archives from October 2008
The News Literacy Project is seeking retired journalists to work with New York middle school students from East Harlem and Brooklyn in early 2009. The project is partnering with Citizen Schools, a national model that improves student achievement through after-school programs that blend real-world learning and rigorous academics. The project’s journalists will receive training from Citizen Schools and become "Citizen Teachers." Teams of two or more journalists will work with a dozen students or so for 90 minutes in the late afternoon once a week for 10 weeks, starting in early February. The...
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The project is pleased to announce that Dr. Terry K. Peterson, who served as counselor to former Education Secretary Richard Riley, has joined the board. Terry spearheaded numerous national education initiatives during the Clinton administration as well as state reforms as education adviser to Riley during his governorship of South Carolina. In both positions, Riley said, Terry was his “right-hand man.” He remains deeply involved in education as a senior fellow at the College of Charleston, director of the Afterschool and Community Learning National Network and chairman of the national...
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The News Literacy Project aspires to engage students around real-world events and to find dynamic and innovative teachers as partners for our journalist fellows. Stuart Postle, who taught at Ridgewood High School in New Jersey and many other places, embodied these qualities. Alan Miller, the project’s executive director, wrote the attached tribute to this remarkable teacher. We hope it will inspire others to share their own memories of great teachers and what made them so special.
Frank Baker, a media literacy consultant and member of the project’s advisory committee, has recommended the following for teachers and those interested in news literacy matters:
1) "Turning Pages: High School Journalism in Transition" is a recent article in The Nation that examines the decline of high school journalism programs in the San Francisco Bay Area and some efforts to buck that trend.
2) Using Newspapers in the Classroom is a collection of newspaper-based activities to use in the classroom with young adults and adults.
3) "Fact-Finding on the Campaign Trail" is a column in the Akron...
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