Recommendations

What if courses in News Literacy could dramatically spread from coast-to-coast to dozens of universities and scores of high schools in the next year?

What if there was a way to fund the growth so that the universities and local school districts, many of them resource-starved,

would not have to initially pay any cost?

What if there was a way to marry the growing need for News Literacy education with a pool of experienced professionals who are out-of-work, just waiting to have their talent and passion re-directed into the classroom?

At the concluding session of the conference, Dean Howard Schneider proposed what would become the conference’s “big idea.”

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