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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

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A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. New Jersey legislators and policymakers have recognized that their students need this education, need these life skills so urgently.

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

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.