Text Box: Begun as early as the 1930s, Newspapers In Education (NIE) is a nationally recognized program that delivers local and national news to area schools. The purpose of having newspapers in the classroom is to improve students’ history, math, economics, science, reading, spelling, writing, and geography skills—to name a few—at all grade levels. For almost a decade, the Edwardsville Intelligencer has been a proud provider of our newspaper to multiple schools around the area. Using newspapers in classrooms is not a new idea. Over 200 years ago, the Portland (Maine) Eastern Herald published an editorial on June 8, 1795 that read: Much has been said and written on the utility of newspapers; but one principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools, and by the children in families. Try it for one session — Do you wish your child to improve in reading solely, give him a newspaper—it furnishes a variety, some parts of which much infallibly touch his fancy. Do you wish to instruct him in geography, nothing will so indelibly fix the relative situation of different places, as the stories and events published in the paper. In time, do you wish to have him acquainted with the manners of the country or city, to the mode of doing business, public and private; do you wish him to have a smattering of every kind of science useful and amusing, give him a newspaper—newspapers are plenty and cheap—the cheapest book that can be bought, and the more you buy the better for your children, because every part furnishes some new and valuable information. Not only do the students of the NIE program benefit educationally, but teachers who engage the program in their classroom receive a real world supplement to traditional classroom resources. It’s a “living” textbook, for it is updated every day!

TESTIMONIALS & FACTS

 

“I appreciate the hard work the entire Edwardsville       Intelligencer staff do on a daily basis.  My students and I benefit from the support of Newspapers In Education daily.  The newspaper helps my students complete key assignments, such as their drivers education projects, math statistics assignments, keeping up with current events, and others.  Thank you for your support.”
Heather Clausen, EHS educator

 

“We like it [NIE] because newspapers are an interesting thing to read.  They tell us what is going on around us.”
Cyndi Herndon’s 7th grade class

 

“I use several of the articles to read to my class and discuss with them the impact that community and national events have on them personally.”
Rebecca Holle, EHS educator

 

“Those people with higher exposure to newspapers in class were more interested in the situation in Iraq, were more interested in politics, and were more interested in local government issues.” Reading Today, Feb/Mar 2005

 

“Young adults who remembered using the    newspaper in school were more likely to  develop       lifelong readership habits than those who said they had no exposure to newspapers in school.”
Newspaper Association of America Foundation

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