After overhauling literacy policy in 2013, Mississippi went from 49th to a top 10 state in fourth-grade reading. It’s been dubbed the “Mississippi Miracle,” but those involved say it was more of a ...

Literacy is the key to solving everything." This is the stated philosophy of the National Literacy Institute, which reports that, as of ...

Poynter helps newsrooms, companies and unions integrate fact-checking and media literacy into their work to engage new audiences, build trust and empower communities with the skills to navigate a ...

HELSINKI — The battle against fake news in Finland starts in preschool classrooms. For decades, the Nordic nation has woven media literacy, including the ability to analyze different kinds of media ...

Across Michigan, civics and social studies are disappearing from K-12 school curriculums, while children and young adults have more access to social media and the internet disinformation than ever ...

New technologies are complicating efforts to teach the scrolling generation to think critically and defensively online. “We’re sending these kids out into the world, and we’re supposed to have ...

In our modern era, human attention is nearly constantly occupied with media, such as news articles, social media, television, podcasts and other forms of content. This media consumption plays a major ...

The following headlines have made the rounds online, but which one is actually true? “Mermaids Spotted Off the Florida Coast” “An AI-Generated Image Wins a Major Photography Award” “High School ...

Finland claiming the top spot in the Open Society Foundations’ annual Media Literacy Index has become an inevitability. The Nordic nation has placed first every year since 2017, when the list – which ...

Fewer people are reading books, finding they don’t have the capacity to concentrate even over short periods of time on the pages in front of them. Today, short video clips on TikTok, Reels, Instagram ...

LONDON, 30 October 2025 – The ‘literacy crisis’ is complex, but two things are clear: some teachers lack confidence in teaching literacy effectively and some children are not learning foundational ...