NewsGuard for Schools and Universities

K-12 schools and educators interested in using NewsGuard’s tools with their students may license NewsGuard for their students at a heavily discounted rate.

Contact us by using the button below to learn about our institutional licensing program. And consult the Resources section below for suggested exercises and lesson plans for using NewsGuard in the classroom.

“NewsGuard provides me with a sense of security as students venture out on the internet. The idea of quick "nutrition labels" is so valuable, as it speaks to students' desire for efficiency, but also teaches them to look at sources critically. I can tell them this until I am blue in the face, but NewsGuard SHOWS it to them.”

Dougherty Valley High School (CA, USA)

“In a post truth era, NewsGuard is one of a few essential and pivotal tools to help the confused and bewildered make some sense of the blizzard of online misinformation, disinformation and misinformation. NewsGuard is like a virus protection for the truth — a key pillar of democracy.”

Wilmington Grammar School for Boys (Dartford, England)

“We are constantly trying to help our students, particularly our middle, high school and postsecondary students, separate fact from fiction, as we help them develop their critical-thinking and analytical skills. NewsGuard is a great tool in this regard. It is a beacon of clarity to expose the dark depths of the internet and uplift those outlets committed to truth and honesty rather than falsehoods and fabrications.”

Randi Weingarten

President, American Federation of Teachers

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Case Study

Read our case study with DePaul College Prep

Tony Powers, the Chief Librarian at DePaul College Prep, a parochial high school in Chicago, uses NewsGuard when teaching media literacy to his students. "The availability of NewsGuard to our students and faculty is both a practical tool for determining reliable sources of information, but constantly serves as a visual reminder of the importance of vetting sources when members are surfing the web," he said.

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Case Study

Read our case study with Cienega High School

Chris Salvagio teaches AP Language and Composition and advises seniors on their “Senior Exit Projects.” He encouraged students to install the NewsGuard browser extension to aid their research, and requested that they reference NewsGuard’s Nutrition Labels to justify why they had cited particular sources. He found that not a single student used a questionable source with NewsGuard installed, which Salvagio called “an extraordinary improvement from years prior.”

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Resources

Click the links below to download NewsGuard’s free resources for teachers, librarians, and parents hoping to use NewsGuard as a media literacy teaching tool.

  • Guide for Educators: Created in collaboration with Stony Brook University’s Center for News Literacy, the guide walks through a media literacy lesson plan and ends with suggested exercises, all of which are aligned to Common Core and ISTE standards.
  • Guide for Students: A packet to provide to your students describing how to use the extension and understand the ratings, the nine criteria, and the Nutrition Label reviews.
  • Student Exercise Worksheet: A worksheet that challenges students to “Think Like a NewsGuardian” when evaluating sources and claims.
  • NewsGuard School Success Story: This case study and Q&A highlights how a high school AP Language & Composition teacher used NewsGuard to improve his students’ source evaluation skills.
  • What’s in a (Domain) Name? — U.S. Version: This series of exercises helps students learn how to evaluate source domain name endings — such as .org and .com — and think critically about how domain names may relate to the reliability of a site.
  • What’s in a (Domain) Name? — U.K. Version: This series of exercises helps students learn how to evaluate source domain name endings — such as .org and .com — and think critically about how domain names may relate to the reliability of a site.
  • Hashtags and Hoaxes — U.S. Version: This series of exercises helps students look critically at the information available on TikTok and evaluate the credibility of TikTok videos using strategies including applying NewsGuard’s criteria.
  • Hashtags and Hoaxes — U.K. Version: This series of exercises helps students look critically at the information available on TikTok and evaluate the credibility of TikTok videos using strategies including applying NewsGuard’s criteria.