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Recognizing fake news now a required subject in California schools

https://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/2023/11/19/recognizing-fake-news-now-a-required-subject-in-california-schools

Pushing back against the surge of misinformation online, California will now require all K-12 students to learn media literacy skills -- such as recognizing fake news and thinking critically about what they encounter on the internet.

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Once I got to college and took real critical thinking classes in philosophy I was shocked at how pathetic the English classes were where we imitated the tools and concepts we would learn and apply in college. I think that people who study English do not learn critical thinking well enough in most cases and are better at teaching composition and the reading of fictional stories.