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The North Carolina Newspapers 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.

For more information,
contact Sandra Cook:

NC Press Foundation, Newspapers in Education, CB3365, 19 Carroll Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3365, (919) 843-5648, fax (919) 843-4734
sandynie@unc.edu

Business office:
5171 Glenwood Ave., Ste. 364
Raleigh, NC 27612
(919) 787-7443
fax (919) 787-5302
www.ncpress.com

NC 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.

 

“Taffy of Torpedo Junction”


For publication in newspapers, the NC NIE program offers a 16-chapter serial story by Nell Wise Wechter. The story comes with seven curricula.

For samples, order forms and curricula, click here.

Other stories:
The Story of Louis Armstrong


For Constitution Day features

Newspapers, choose one or more of three features on and during the week of September 17. Add history about your newspaper to the feature that spotlights places in NC.

Quiz: Color | BW
Did you know?: Color | BW
Bill of Rights in NC: Color | BW


Agri Corner

For publication in newspapers during the 2007-2008 school year, Newspapers in Education offers a 14-part series on agriculture and agribusiness in North Carolina. Click here for a sample.