Sarah McGrew

Sarah McGrew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. She studies educational responses to the spread of online mis- and disinformation, focusing on how young people search for and evaluate online information on contentious topics and how schools can better support students to learn effective evaluation strategies.

Dr. McGrew's current research focuses on three related questions: how best to support teachers to learn online reasoning themselves and prepare for teaching students, how to design lessons that are rooted in civic and community issues that students know and care about, and how to connect lessons on evaluating online information to a larger process of civic inquiry that includes discussing issues and taking informed action. 

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Research Interests: 

• Educational responses to misinformation
• Digital literacy