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In a Fake Fact Era, Schools Teach the ABCs of News Literacy

In a Fake Fact Era, Schools Teach the ABCs of News Literacy

In a Fake Fact Era, Schools Teach the ABCs of News Literacy

Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer

June 9, 20179m 46s

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Fourteen-year-old Isabel Catalan stares intently at her laptop as she walks me through a recent assignment one sunny morning a few weeks before summer vacation. The studious eighth grader and I are sitting in a tiny, colorful classroom at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, a small private elementary school in the tree-lined Philadelphia suburbs, which also happens to be my alma mater. In most ways, Norwood feels a lot like I left it nearly 20 years ago.

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