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The Challenge
96%
In 2019, a Stanford History Education
Group study concluded that nearly all
high school students surveyed did
not consider the validity of a source,
over half could not correctly rate the
strength of evidence, and more than
two-thirds could not tell the difference
between news and sponsored content.
didn’t consider
why ties between
a climate change website and
the fossil fuel industry might
lessen the site’s credibility.
68%
couldn’t tell the
difference between
news and sponsored
content (advertising) on
a news site’s homepage.
52%
believed that a
grainy video of ballot
stu昀케ng — shot in Russia
— was “strong evidence”
of voter fraud in the U.S.
“Education moves slowly.
Technology doesn’t.
If we don’t act with urgency,
our students’ ability to engage
in civic life will be the casualty.”
(Students’ Civic Online Reasoning: A National Portrait, Stanford History Education Group, 2019)
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Teaching news literacy
