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What these teens learned about the Internet may shock you!

The Hechinger Report

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. “They got duped.”. Or, as one student put it, loudly, “fudge nuggets!”. This isn’t just a problem with kids,” said Wineburg.

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In high-crime areas, education reform needs to expand outside the classroom

The Hechinger Report

In 2015 and 2016, it took two months longer to hit that dubious target. Just as it’s easier for students to learn French by speaking it in France, we need civics, literature and science to be practiced in communities rocked by nonsensical violence. As of May 31, there were 300 shooting victims in New Orleans.