To The Mustang News - Newspapers In Education Program

"How can American education become more relevant? How can we avoid producing passive, indifferent students? How can we turn out better informed young people with a genuine curiosity about and involvement in our world? We could start by using the daily newspapers in our public schools". Walter Cronkite, CBS news anchorman.

And we are doing exactly that, through our Newspapers In Education program. NIE is designed to help our teachers use their local newspaper as a teaching tool in their classroom.

The goal of the NIE program is to use the newspaper to help teachers with the subjects they are already teaching. It is not intended to simply teach about the newspaper.

Newspapers are used as instructional tools in many subjects and grade levels. Typically most NIE programs focus on language arts, reading, social studies, math, science and geography.

Newspapers are available at no cost to the students, school or teacher.
This is made possible through cooperative sponsorships with area businesses, individuals, and The El Reno Tribune, with The Tribune paying for half of the cost.

Newspapers are available to any teacher interested in using them in the classroom for educational purposes.

Please feel free to browse our NIE site. You should find several areas of interest everywhere from Teacher & Sponsor listings & signup forms, to useful links to other websites about NIE.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or need more information about NIE.