Designed for high school students and teachers, this site is useful if you are teaching current events, civics or media studies. The site is designed to help students learn to cut through the misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. Gives a guide to Internet sites (which they divide into three categories: "The Official Word", "Policy Wonks" and "For the Cause"), a dictionary of terms your students might encounter reading articles (appropriation, dark horse, veto, etc. etc.) and detailed lesson plans with downloadable handouts to use in class!

FactCheckEd.org sister site, FactCheck.org is also worth checking out , it's goal is to monitor the accuracy of what is said by U.S. politicians in news releases, television ads, debates, speeches and interviews.