Welcome to Newspapers in Education!
Newspapers In Education is a national program that promotes literacy through the use of the daily newspaper as an instructional aid in the classroom. The Waco Tribune-Herald partners with educators and local businesses to encourage literacy, to broaden students' community and global perspectives and to equip area teachers with a powerful tool for teaching at no cost to the teachers or schools.
For more info email Carol Wenzel or call 254-757-5823.
Reminder!
VERIFY YOUR PAPERS
Teachers, please remember to verify delivery of your newspapers every semester. NIE is audited annually and must have a verification form on file each semester for every teacher.
Click here to verify that you received your newspapers
Tours of the newspaper plant are also available for school groups of 20 or fewer and no younger than eight years of age. The cost is $25 per group.
Curriculum notebooks in the areas of reading/writing, mathematics, science, and social studies are available to teachers for $25 each. The lessons are correlated to the TAKS objectives.
Daily Science Webcasts

Quick, what's the best spot in the world for finding meteorites?
Teachers: We need your help!
If you're a Kids Kopy subscriber, we'd like to hear from you.
Kids' Kopy is a 12-page tabloid published once a month during the school year featuring a different character trait each month. These can be ordered for classrooms at 17 cents a copy.
Click here to download the KidsKopy schedule and order form.
Resources to help you put the Tribune-Herald to work in your classroom

This week's lesson:
The Octopus as symbol
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:

Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
Readers and journalists groan under a glut of celebrity news
-- Front Page Talking Points Archive
Lesson Plans:
Skills Sheet:
Writing Prompt:
Ask Marilyn:
Current Events Quiz:
Pruitt Medical
Hoppenstien Properties
Bird Kultgen Ford
Tejas Logistics
Healer Printing & Office Supply
ExtraCo Financial
Brazos Higher Education
State Farm Insurance - Jim Baker
Grande Communications
Marathon Norco Aerospace
Texas State Technical College (TSTC)
Waco Federal Credit Union
Dupuy Oxygen
Texas Pneumatic Tools
American Bank
James R. & Nell Hawkins
Certain Teed Corporation
Curtis Realty
National Lloyd Insurance
Ace Fence & Supply
Rick Abbe Financial
Educators Awards
Member's Choice Federal Credit Union
Teach Smart
KWBU-TV
Waco comet Cleaners
Dickerson Fire Protection
Southwest Maintenance
DOCPAY
Elizabeth Gordon Bradley Chapter NSDAR
Staas Plumbing