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Great Neck expands news media literacy across grades with Stony Brook partnership
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Steven Landau told the Board Jan. 14 that Great Neck’s news media literacy initiative, developed with Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy, is being integrated across PreK–12 curricula, with new middle‑school coursework and pilot high‑school modules.
Assistant Superintendent Steven Landau presented a progress report on the district’s news media literacy initiative at the Great Neck Union Free School District Board of Education meeting on Jan. 14.
Landau said the initiative aims to teach students “the ability to determine the reliability and credibility of news and information regardless of the source and to apply that skill in our professional and personal lives.”
The presentation, developed with the Stony Brook University Center for News Literacy, maps instruction across grade levels and content areas. Landau said elementary lessons introduce…
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