What is the News Literacy Project
The News Literacy Project (NLP) is an innovative national educational program that mobilizes seasoned journalists to help middle school and high school students sort fact from fiction in the digital age.
The project teaches students critical-thinking skills that will enable them to be smarter and …
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Kathleen Parker Joins the News Literacy Project Board
Apr 11, 2012 | Post a comment on this entryKathleen Parker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post, has joined the News Literacy Project’s board.
Parker writes a twice-weekly column on politics and culture that is syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group to more than 450 newspapers. The Post is one of 21 news organizations that participate in the News Literacy Project.
In 2010, Parker was awarded the Pulitzer …
Read MoreStudents Go Behind-the-Scenes with NLP
Apr 2, 2012 | Post a comment on this entryHarlan Community Academy students visited the Chicago Defender newspaper on March 21 to learn about the 106-year-old publication’s important role in the Great Migration. The students were part of Harlan’s After School Matters journalism program, led by teacher Lauren Lykke. Student articles appear in the magazine Say What, a publication of Young Chicago Authors.
The Defender, located on Chicago’s …
Read MoreMount Vernon Elementary School Students in Chicago Produce…
Jan 9, 2012 | There are 3 comments on this entryThe News Literacy Project’s fall semester at Mount Vernon Elementary School in Chicago wrapped up with the production of a short documentary by Anjanette Lipsett’s 7th-grade English class.
“Our Own Actions” tackles the issue of youth violence in five parts: “Innocent Victims,” “Youth Violence in Sports,” “Teen Violence,” “Then and Now” and “Who is Responsible?” …
Read MoreThe News Literacy Project Concludes a Banner Year…
Dec 29, 2011 | Post a comment on this entryThe News Literacy Project (NLP) made dramatic progress in 2012 in its mission to create a new generation of smarter and more engaged consumers and creators of credible news and information.
NLP is now working with 35 teachers in 21 middle schools and high schools in New York City, Chicago, Washington and Bethesda, Md., to reach well over 2,000 students this school year. This included expansion …
Read MoreThe News Literacy Project Brings Students to Newsrooms…
Dec 23, 2011 | Post a comment on this entryNot only is the News Literacy Project bringing journalists to students in schools, it’s increasingly bringing students to the journalists in their newsrooms.
Students participating in the project visited four newsrooms in New York and Chicago in the past two months, bringing the total number of such field trips in the two cities to 10 for 2011.
A group of 14 high school seniors from Cristo …
Read More“PBS NewsHour” Reports on the News Literacy Project
Dec 14, 2011 | There are 2 comments on this entryThe News Literacy Project’s growing program to give students the tools to know what to believe in a digital age was the subject of a seven-minute report on "PBS NewsHour" on Dec. 13.
The report, titled “News Literacy Project Trains Young People to be Skeptical Media Consumers,” featured NLP’s work with 8th-grade students at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., and students at …
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