Growth of program NIE programs usually sell themselves to teachers once they get past the impression that the newspaper is only trying to build circulation. But once they see how valuable it is and the world it opens up for students, they embrace it. The course will show how to use the Herald as a learning tool in the classroom. Teachers can receive continuing education credit for the course. This single contact brought another 1,200 papers into a classroom.
Woods also attends school functions and programs, like a recent geography bee.
Maintaining the program What papers have found is that a well-maintained NIE program can go beyond curriculum guides. At the Citizens' Voice , Wilkes-Barre, Pa., NIE Coordinator Debby Higgins organizes a community speakers bureau. The speakers bureau is one way the Citizens' Voice NIE program competes with another Wilkes-Barre daily, the Times Leader . Higgins has three news pages a week to devote to stories that students can use in the classroom. One recent story examined how an education bill became law in the state legislature.