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Twenty-four journalists have recently joined the News Literacy Project, bringing the total of participating news professionals to 55. Among the new fellows are Mark Halperin, Time Magazine’s political reporter and blogger; Ethan Bronner, the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times; Steve Inskeep, co-host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” and Pierre Thomas, ABC News’ award-winning Justice Department reporter.
These journalists will join the project’s initial group of 31 prominent reporters, editors and correspondents. Most are based in New York City or the Washington, D.C. area—the two...
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USA Today is the News Literacy Project’s second participating news organization. The paper has endorsed the project, will post an internal announcement giving its journalists the opportunity to volunteer in the classroom, and help the project recruit former USA Today reporters and editors to participate in an after-school program. “In an era in which there’s a greater quantity of news and information than ever before, it’s critically important to give the members of a new generation the tools they need to assess the quality of that content,” USA Today Editor Ken Paulson said. “The News...
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The New York Times is the News Literacy Project’s first participating news organization. The Times has endorsed the project, posted an internal announcement giving the paper’s journalists the opportunity to volunteer in the classroom, and is helping the project recruit former Times reporters and editors to participate in its after-school program. It has also agreed to provide copies of the paper to participating schools that don’t currently have access to it.
“The New York Times is pleased to participate in the News Literacy Project,” said Janet L. Robinson, president and CEO of the New...
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Howard Gardner, a prominent Harvard educator, and Dave Jones, a former senior editor at the New York Times, have joined the News Literacy Project’s advisory committee.
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the author of over 20 books that have been translated into 27 languages. He is best known for his theory of multiple intelligences, a critique of the notion that there is a single human intelligence to be assessed by standard psychometric instruments. He has received honorary degrees...
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The News Literacy Project is pleased to announce that Bob Jervis, the former coordinator of social studies for the Anne Arundel County (Md.) Public Schools, will be its curriculum developer. Bob was responsible for developing the county schools’ social studies curriculum for kindergarten through 12th grade. After retiring in 2001, he spent five years with the Maryland State Department of Education assisting low-performing schools to improve student achievement.
Bob is currently teaching the social studies methods courses in the Master of Arts in Teaching Program at Goucher College in...
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Alan C. Miller, the News Literacy Project’s founder and executive director, discussed news literacy in the classroom—and the project’s plans to provide it—in remarks to the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. He did so as part of a panel on "Information, Engagement, and Democracy at the Community Level" at the commission’s Nov. 17 meeting, held in the Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago.
The 15-member Knight commission plans to issue its findings in early 2009 and intends to recommend public and private measures to help communities across the...
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