Scholastic ditches ABC/Disney's Mockumentary

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Scholastic ditches ABC/Disney's Mockumentary

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Daily Kos Staff

Thursday September 07, 2006 · 1:45 PM PDT

2006/09/07 · 13:45

A significant victory.

Educational media giant Scholastic, Inc. announced it's dropping its original classroom companion guides to a controversial new docudrama, and replacing them with materials stressing critical thinking and media literacy.
"After a thorough review of the original guide that we offered online to about 25,000 high school teachers, we determined that the materials did not meet our high standards for dealing with controversial issues," said Dick Robinson, Chairman, President and CEO of Scholastic, in a press release.

Good for them.

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