PBS NewsHour covered the News Literacy Project in a seven-minute segment Tuesday night.
The program featured social studies teachers Colin O’Brien and Peter Kenah, as well as several NSL classes.
The News Literacy Project, which launched at Whitman four years ago, teaches students how to find accurate news sources. The curriculum is taught in 21 different middle and high schools in New York City, Chicago and Washington. D.C. Alan Miller, a former investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner, started the News Literacy Project four years ago from his Bethesda home.
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“A century ago, Mark Twain said that a lie can get halfway around the world while truth is still putting on its shoes,” Miller said in the segment. “In this hyperlinked information age, a lie can get all the way around the world and back while the truth is still getting out of bed.”
