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A shocking number of young people can’t separate fact from fiction online

The Hechinger Report

For example, when presented with a tweet made from a liberal advocacy group, half of the students judged the tweet without bothering to click the link to read the source of information presented to advance the advocacy group’s claim. And that work must begin early, the authors say – in elementary school, ideally.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. One elementary school principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”