The newspaper industry itself is providing materials for use in adult ESL literacy classrooms. These efforts, some developed by newspaper publishers and others by literacy practitioners, involve using the newspaper as curriculum. The Los Angeles Daily News has developed a program for ESL and amnesty preparation that uses the newspaper as curriculum. Each section of the curriculum contains three levels of difficulty, so teachers may choose those tasks that are most appropriate for their students. It, too, is designed to assist in reading and language arts skill areas for students at various levels of literacy.
Some newspapers offer workplace literacy classes.
Fifty adults are enrolled in a computer-assisted literacy project designed by the Los Angeles Times for its employees, their families, and individuals from the surrounding community. The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, MA, assists a local human services agency in sponsoring an English class for Asian adults in the community. The Miami Herald publishes a Spanish language newspaper to appeal to the large Spanish-speaking community in Miami. To attract readers in Spanish-speaking homes, El Nuevo Herald is provided free with a subscription to the Miami Herald. In Brownsville, TX, a class meets twice weekly using this approach.