The North Carolina Newspaper in Education program encourages young people to become lifelong readers and learners, capable writers, informed, involved adults, thoughtful consumers of news and advocates for the First Amendment.





Newspapers enhance learning in North Carolina classrooms.

N.C. Newspapers in Education, a program of the NC Press Foundation, supports the use of print and online newspapers for teaching and learning in homes, public and private schools and adult education.

NC NIE provides standard-based curriculum guides and credit workshops for teachers and offers educational content for publication in newspapers. Content includes in-paper features, serial stories and tabloid sections.

NC NIE works with North Carolina newspapers and other organizations to promote literacy, civic learning and character education and enhance learning about a broad range of subjects.

 

Summer Reading Series 2012
Help students in your readership area Dream Big with the Summer Reading Series for this year. Details and Downloads

Patriotic Pals series
Now available for use by North Carolina newspapers is a serial story from the Missouri Press Foundation highlighting dog mascots from the Civil War. Details

North Carolinians of Note
Four new profiles now available for 2012! Free for newspapers to use is this series provided by a UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications class. Download PDFs of stories on famous people from the Old North State. Details

Teachers!
If you include current events and local news in your teaching to promote literacy and civic learning and engage students with relevant, content-rich material, apply for the Dave Jones award. Receive a $250 honorarium and as much as $750 to attend and present at an educational conference. The attachment provides details.

Application Form


 

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