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One state is poised to teach media literacy starting in kindergarten 

The Hechinger Report

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

The Hechinger Report

Before officially launching Vermilion in March, Adams had worked for his alma mater, Hillsdale — a private Christian college in Michigan dedicated to “classical” education, hard-right political advocacy, and spreading its education model nationwide. Then there was the curriculum. Chaikin did not respond to a request for comment.)