We offer free and unbiased media literacy resources
At Verity, we believe learning starts with questioning — not headlines. Rated the most unbiased news source by AllSides, Verity brings balance, depth, and transparency to the stories shaping our world. On VerityEd, we go beyond the feed to help educators teach their students how media works — and how to think critically about it.
VerityED was built for a simple reason: students are growing up in a world where news, opinion, entertainment, algorithms, and conflicting information all compete for their attention at once.
Curriculum-Based Lessons
We create structured media literacy lessons that teachers can bring directly into the classroom. Each lesson is designed around clear learning goals, discussion questions, activities, and student-friendly explanations. Our curriculum helps students build foundational skills in journalism, source evaluation, information reliability, framing, algorithms, statistics, images, propaganda, free speech, and more.
Real News-Based Learning
VerityEd lessons are grounded in real-world news and current media examples. Instead of teaching media literacy in isolation, we help students practice with the kinds of stories, posts, headlines, images, and claims they actually encounter. Students learn to ask: Who made this? What evidence supports it? What context is missing? How is this framed? What might different audiences see differently.
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We also share behind-the-scenes looks at how media, journalism, and education come together. From how a lesson is created to how journalists verify information, these features help students see the process behind the final product — and understand that trustworthy information does not appear by accident. It is researched, checked, edited, questioned, and refined.
Community
VerityED is also a growing community of educators, students, volunteers, journalists, and media literacy advocates. We invite feedback, discussion, and collaboration because media literacy works best when it is practiced together. Our community helps shape future lessons, suggest new topics, and keep the work connected to real classroom needs.
We’re building a growing network of students, teachers, and journalists who believe understanding the news starts with seeing every side. Join our Slack Community to share insights, classroom ideas, and stories that shape how we learn.
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