Posted on 12/30/2017 11:21:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
Alarmed by the proliferation of false content online, state lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction.
Lawmakers in several states have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to do more to teach media literacy skills that they say are critical to democracy. The effort has been bipartisan but has received little attention despite successful legislation in Washington state, Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Mexico.
Several more states are expected to consider such bills in the coming year, including Arizona, New York and Hawaii.
“I don’t think it’s a partisan issue to appreciate the importance of good information and the teaching of tools for navigating the information environment,” said Hans Zeiger, a Republican state senator in Washington who co-sponsored a bill that passed in his state earlier this year. “There is such a thing as an objective source versus other kinds of sources, and that’s an appropriate thing for schools to be teaching.”
Advocates say the K-12 curriculum has not kept pace with rapid changes in technology. Studies show many children spend hours every day online but struggle to comprehend the content that comes at them. …
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It sounds like tax payer money to be used for more left wing indoctrination.
No they do not. My taxes pay for the stupidity and ignorance of dumbed down, mentally handicapped children. Keep it that way. And there is not anything a parent can do about it. Stupidity is your child's future. Embrace it.
Smart parents homeschool.
They realize that the property tax or education bond is to create disadvantaged children. Lost money. But their home school child will have a great advantage.
That is the game. Do you want to play a game?
Your taxes already pay for the school attendance of other people’s daughters and sons.
Beware of the government teaching the “truth.”
“Smart parents homeschool.
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Wrong,SOME parents homeschool.
Most parents prefer public or private schools.
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Yes it does!
This is a really, really bad idea.
Most of these kids teachers are too stupid to know the difference.
Oh, they’re not stupid. They know exactly what they want to indoctrinate kids with.
Translation: They’re ramping up the lies/propaganda because they’re not working as well as they’d like.
The Newspeak term is "blackwhite", holding mutually contradictory opinions at the same time, because the Party requires it.
It's a badge of the in-group, of which the self-contradiction is a necessary part. Swallowing it whole shows one's allegiance to the Revolution, doncha know.
Be forewarned, AP is a big disseminator of fake news.
I have to look those terms up later. Sounds like an excellent class. In 1968? Your teacher was prescient, also.
I don’t trust this for one red second.
I was thinking of those unable to afford private schools. Though I think you’re basically right, other than my seeming a bum.
The school district I attended was incredibly good.
So good, that I was spoiled by the time I went to college. I actually thought the professors would be as good as my middle- and high-school teachers. They were not, with one (or perhaps two) exceptions.
I’ve compared notes with my classmates at reunions, and many agree: our teachers were very good back then, were smart and really tried hard to be effective.
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