Op-ed: Media literacy should be part of the core curriculum

Published on July 10, 2017 NLP in the News

The News Literacy Project got a shout-out in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed by Larry Atkins, a journalism professor at Temple University and Arcadia University. One way to fight fake news, he writes, is including media literacy as a mandatory part of every child’s educational experience.

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