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Center for News Literacy founder speaks worked with. Since 2019, Malverne district schools have also partnered In a news environment dom- with the Center for News Literinated by social media, an over- acy. The district has earned whelming number of news Lighthouse District distinction sources and artificial intelli- for its leadership in advancing gence, it can be challenging for news literacy education. anyone, especially today’s The program serves stuyouth, to decipher fact from fic- dents across the district, from tion. primary school The South Shore through high Women’s Alliance, a school, with a nonpartisan organicourse at Maurice zation that advoW. Downing Primacates for issues ry School, News Litimpor tant to not eracy units at Davionly women, but son Avenue Intervoters in general, mediate School, an welcomed Howard elective course and Schneider, founder additional focus at of the Center for Howard T. Herber JASoN MACH News Literacy at Middle School, and district supervisor Stony Brook Univerhigh school instrucsity, to its May 28 of humanities tion as well, includmeeting at the Mering a dual enrollrick Golf Course. ment option with Stony Brook Schneider, a journalist who in Senior Government. worked at Newsday for 35 years “News Literacy is an essenand a founding dean of Stony tial skill for every student,” Brook’s journalism school, cre- Jason Mach, district supervisor ated the news literacy program of humanities, said “In Malwhen he started teaching at the verne, this work spans the full university in 2006. K-12 continuum, from evaluat“I realized back then that ing Chicken Little’s actions even they were very confused with our youngest learners to and overwhelmed about what analyzing current domestic and information they can trust,” he international events and news said of the college students he Continued on page 5
By NoAH PERETZ
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New STEM lab open at Downing Primary School Downing Primary School held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of its brandnew K-2 STEM Lab on June 4, which was funded in part by a grant from the Alumni Education Foundation for Malverne. Story, additional photo, Page 3.
Davison Ave. Ambassadors set to be honored by Board of Ed By NoAH PERETZ nperetz@liherald.com
At its meeting on Tuesday, after the Herald went to press, the Malverne Board of Education was scheduled to honor the Davison Avenue Ambassadors for their efforts to have the Lakeview Public Library certified by the Town of Hempstead as a historic landmark. The library was once the Woodfield Road School, a K-6 school that served the Lakeview neighborhood when schools were segregated. Sixty-one years ago, on May 12, 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Rockville Centre to Lakeview, organized by the Lakeview chapter of the NAACP, which ended at the
school. Martine Laventure, Davison Avenue’s school social worker, and the Davison Avenue Ambassadors, a children’s civic learning and advocacy group, saw to it that the historic event was honored and recognized. They researched the history of the Woodfield Road School, including the day King visited, and interviewed former students. On May 6, Dr. Laventure and two members of the Ambassadors, along with other Lakeview community members, spoke at a meeting of the Hempstead Landmarks Preservation Commission, making their case that the library be certified as a historic landmark. The town is working on a temporary landContinued on page 7
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