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GROUNDBREAKING THREE-YEAR STUDY PROVES QUANTIFIABLE BENEFITS OF MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION

Alliance for a Media Literate America and Just Think announce Conclusive Data of Significant Increases in Core Academic Skills

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San Francisco, CA – November 16th, 2007 – Results of a major new study validate that media literacy education improves core learning for all students. The research further indicated that special education and hard to reach students made particularly significant gains. The three-year Media Education, Arts and Literacy (MEAL) project was delivered to approximately 444 students in two low-income middle schools in San Francisco with a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Conducted through a collaboration of the AMLA and the Just Think Foundation of San Francisco, which designed and delivered teacher training and curriculum, the findings presented evidence from standardized measures including the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking in which students’ critical and creative thinking skills measurably increased following their participation.

“The results of the evaluation clearly indicate that those students exposed to the MEAL curriculum showed significant increases in their acquisition of knowledge in core curriculum areas – and even shifts in attitudes toward learning,” reported educational researcher Michael Cohen.

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