Category "Success Stories"
The News Literacy Project is delighted to welcome Kate Ferrall, a former teacher and broadcast journalist, as program coordinator. She brings valuable experience, talent and commitment to the mission.
A graduate of Oberlin College and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Kate began her career teaching at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. before moving to “The Kids on the Block,” an international program that uses puppets to educate young people about disabilities and social differences. After earning her master’s degree in journalism, she worked as a...
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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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Here’s a timely exercise for teachers: Have your students search for three to five things in print about the presidential or vice presidential candidates that are false. Where did the students find such statements? Could they identify the original source? How do they know the information is false? What is their evidence? Did they ask the source to set the record straight? What does their experience tell them about these sources of information? If you try this, please let us know about your experience in the comment section at the bottom of the page.
Gwen Ifill, the host of PBS’ “Washington Week’’ and one of the News Literacy Project’s initial journalist fellows, moderated the vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin, the second time she was in this position. Gwen is by no means alone among the project’s journalist fellows in playing a critical role in the 2008 presidential campaign. Bloomberg’s Edwin Chen and Politico’s Jeanne Cummings have been covering the race with distinction. Scott Pelley of CBS has done a series of high-profile interview pieces with Sen. John McCain on “60 Minutes.” The Washington Post’s...
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