Media Literacy in the United States

The authors acknowledge the difficulty of capturing an adequate picture of the past, present and future state of media literacy education in the United States, a country of 300 million people, with more than 4,000 colleges and universities and over 75 million children in a highly decentralized system of elementary and secondary schools. The information is provided as an overview, but is not meant to stand as a comprehensive review of media literacy in the US.