Chapter 15: Reading the “News” and Reading the “World” in High School Social Studies Classrooms

Michael Pezone and Alan Singer have had a 10 year collaboration as teachers, researchers and authors. Singer is a former New York City high school social studies teacher who is now a teacher educator at Hofstra University. Pezone, seeking a second career as a teacher while in his midthirties, was a student in the Hofstra program. He is currently a social studies teacher at Campus Magnet High School in Queens, New York, and an adjunct and cooperating teacher at Hofstra. Singer and Pezone share a commitment to critically interrogating the print media in high school classes to help students develop essential questions about society while also identifying underlying biases in coverage that shape our perception of the world.