
Media Literacy Is an Essential Skill. Schools Should Teach It That Way
An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s EducationWeek article, published 12 July, 2024: You can read this essay in a number of ways.

An excerpt from Nate Noorlander’s EducationWeek article, published 12 July, 2024: You can read this essay in a number of ways.

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We regularly get questions about the slant of our history courses; these questions often boil down to a similar fundamental concern: How far have our courses been captured by one side or the other in the American culture wars? Do we have a partisan approach that unjustly celebrates, or, conversely, unjustly denigrates the “American story”?

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