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National Literacy Trust

Do young people have the critical literacy skills to tell if news stories are real or fake?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on June 16, 2018, 9:00 am | Readers 747

A report out last week stated that only 2% of children and young people in the UK have the critical literacy skills they need to tell if a news story is real or fake. Is that the whole story?

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