The News Literacy Project recently conducted an online professional-development workshop, “News Literacy and Civic Engagement,” for middle school and high school teachers. The session featured Shawn...

The News Literacy Project is an education nonprofit organization that partners with educators to teach young people how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age. NLP is currently offering in-school...

Teachers searching for ways to engage their students with current events have a number of options. A weekly current-events quiz is available to Journalism Education Association members. The questions are...

The fourth lesson plan in the Journalism Education Association’s comprehensive unit on news literacy teaches students about objectivity, a traditional cornerstone of journalism. Students not only learn...

The third lesson plan in the Journalism Education Association’s “Understanding News Literacy” curriculum focuses on how to differentiate fact from fiction using resources available online. “Fact-checking...

The second lesson plan in the Journalism Education Association’s “Understanding News Literacy” curriculum focuses on how technology has changed the way journalists conduct their work. “The Changing...

The Journalism Education Association has a week-long news literacy curriculum available for free online. The unit, designed by Dr. Megan Fromm and funded by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, covers a...

This is the first story in a News and Information Literacy Corner series that will outline the importance of news-and-information-literacy education and highlight classroom resources available online. It’s...

The News Literacy Project is offering a series of online workshops to help secondary-school educators across the country incorporate news literacy into their classrooms. The workshops are part of the News...

There is still plenty of time to become a member of the News and Information Literacy Professional Learning Community sponsored by the American Society of News Editors’ Youth Journalism Initiative. Participants...