Chapter 1 Leading Students into Their Future after High School Children starting school today are entering a world that is in constant flux. Politics, the environment, immigration, and other important issues are topics that confront them from many vantage points. Many students are deeply involved in these issues themselves, while others hear and see the conversa- tions going on through television or social media. Television can offer varying perspectives, and if parents watch the news on different channels, children may see many versions of events. In a perfect world, parents and children would be discussing these events after listening, viewing, and reading about them in a variety of media. However, fewer children watch their parents read- ing the printed newspaper, because fewer adults read the newspaper today. “As of early 2016, just two-in-ten U.S. adults often get news from print news- papers. This has fallen from 27% in 2013.”1 Many television channels and other media, including social media, easily offer a “filter bubble” that gives one perspective, making it incumbent upon viewers today to know and under- stand the mission and goals for those television news and other programming channels. Looking for those programs and newspapers, either online or in print, offering an editorial process that includes editing and content checking, viewers can begin to weigh in on the facts that are reported and make per- sonal decisions on where and how they might want to act upon that news. Social media is ever present and available to almost every man, woman, and child, across the income and education spectrum.2 While the 1
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