Friday, 26 January 2018

U.S. opts out of test designed to teach students to spot biased reporting

U.S. opts out of test designed to teach students to spot biased reporting

The United States - along with the U.K and 42 other countries - has opted out of a standardized test designed, in part, to assess whether children can spot "biases" in news reports, the international Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development confirms to ABC News. The "global competence test," developed by OECD for 15-year-old students worldwide, aims to measure a student's ability to identify "biases and gaps in information," according to documents posted by the organization's committee on student assessment.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-opts-test-designed-teach-students-spot-biased/story?id=52605230?source=Snapzu

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