News snippets from the USA and Jamaica

Kane, T. (2008) "School districts urge 'information literacy'." Northwest Herald, 22 August.
http://www.nwherald.com/articles/
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UNESCO. (2008) Youth speaking to youths. UNESCO press release, 21 August. "UNESCO has partnered with Caribbean Vizion, Violence Prevention Alliance, Ministry of Education of Jamaica and other stakeholders to pilot a programme to promote a culture of peace and inspire positive behaviour change in youths using music, drama and multimedia." (information literacy is mentioned at one of the things that is being developed through this schools campaign) http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/
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Photo by Sheila Webber: Train, Quebec, August 2008