What is Newspaper in Education?

Newspaper in Education (NIE) is a national program between area schools and local newspapers. NIE is jointly sponsored by the International Reading Association and the Newspaper Association of America. This program has been in existence for more than 30 years with more than 700 newspapers across the United States, Canada and other countries participating in the program each academic year.

NIE encourages newspaper reading and literacy in general by offering the newspaper as an extra teaching supplement in the classroom. Teachers can use the newspaper free of charge to teach current events, language arts, social studies, geography, math, science, art, history, English as a second language and more.

Newspapers bridge the gap between general academic subjects and the real world. They motivate positive and practical attitudes toward reading. Students who learn to enjoy reading the newspaper now will more likely be readers as adults. Adult newspaper readers are more likely to be involved in their community and aware of the world.

Therefore, development of newspaper reading now will affect our community as a whole in the future. These students of today will be our local citizens, employees, business professionals and community leaders of tomorrow.

Locally, approximately 180 classrooms in 14 school districts request sponsorship funds to use the Post Register in their classrooms each year.