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A New York City high school educator called it “a dream come true for teachers.” A Chicago school administrator described it as a promising way to learn about social media and digital citizenship. Even before its national launch this week, the News Literacy Project’s Checkology™ e-learning platform was making a strong impression. This set of highly engaging digital…

Summer Moore, an editor at The Times of Northwest Indiana in Munster, Indiana, writes about her volunteer experience teaching news literacy to high school freshmen, and about how NLP’s “News Literacy Is” video helped her succeed.

A select group of students in the News Literacy Project’s New York classroom program demonstrated their news literacy know-how and journalistic skills Monday when they joined the national press corps at Columbia University’s Pulitzer Hall for the announcement of the centennial year Pulitzer Prizes. Two of the students, Isabella Cordero and Gretta Yagudayeva, jumped at…

Adviser Update, published by the Dow Jones News Fund, profiles NLP’s trendsetting role in shaping the news literacy field. Sifting through mounds of information in a digital age, author Richard J. Levine writes, is a “critical skill” — one NLP aptly helps hone.  

The Pulitzer Center captured the News Literacy Project’s field trip with students from Cristo Rey New York High School to attend a Campfire session held in honor of the Pulitzer Prize Centennial.

The News Literacy Project is joining the celebration of the Pulitzer Prize centennial to provide some extraordinary opportunities to high school students who have participated in its programs. The Pulitzer centennial committee is sponsoring a series of events across the country to honor “100 years of excellence in journalism and the arts.” It has invited…

Juliet Stipeche, a member of the News Literacy Project’s board, has been appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to serve as his director of education. She will coordinate education programs and resources between the city and Houston schools, community colleges, universities and nonprofits. She began in the newly created position on Feb. 1. “I am…

Staying informed and engaged is something that Father Joseph Parkes, S.J., the founding president of Cristo Rey New York High School, takes quite seriously. “I look at the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post every day,” Parkes said. “I email the papers a lot, too, and…

Since the launch of its classroom program seven years ago, the News Literacy Project (NLP) has helped young people gain the tools to become lifelong learners through the news media. At KIPP NYC College Prep, a group of high school seniors did not know that Osama bin Laden had been killed more than a year…

The News Literacy Project celebrated two milestones today — the eighth anniversary of its founding and the seventh anniversary of its classroom program, which kicked off with an event in Brooklyn featuring founding board member Soledad O’Brien. Since then we’ve worked with more than 150 diverse and dynamic middle schools and high schools in four major markets.…