Welcome to the Grand Forks Herald NIE website!
Our Newspaper In Education Program has expanded to include our e-Edition. Students live in a digital world. The e-edition of the Grand Forks Herald is an excellent interactive tool in the classroom. Teachers may order and utilize copies needed for your students as educational tools in the classroom at no charge.
This new NIE website includes skills-building activities, games, puzzles and more, updated weekly.
Log into the e-edition using the form to the right or sign up for e-edition access using our online order form.
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e-Edition Access
To register your class or your entire school, click on the "Order" navigation button above and enter the information requested. At the time of the order you will create a user name and password to share with students and teachers to access the e-Edition.
Online Extras (Updated every Monday)
Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.
This Week's lesson:
Paris Louvre museum shut after brazen jewel heist
Instagram tightens limits for users under 18 amid persistent social media safety concerns
More Instagram posts are hidden from users under 18, and they also can't search for "alcohol," "gore" or other newly prohibited topics. While teen accounts already hid or prohibit the recommendation of sexually suggestive content, graphic or dis...
Tap the wealth of information in your newspaper as a teaching tool:
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⇒ Secondary (9-12)
Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.
NASA's Night Sky Network
A monthly column on the latest space discoveries and technologies for elementary students (Updated Monthly)
Journalists exit Pentagon rather than agree to new rules
Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon last week rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work. News outlets were nearly unanimous in rejecting new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that...
Science Audio webcasts: An exclusive partnership with Pulse of the Planet, updated daily with two-minute sound portraits of Planet Earth. Tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide, blending interviews with extraordinary natural sounds.
How well do you keep up with the world around you? Take this week’s quiz to test your knowledge of recent national and world events.
This week's word in the news: SHRAPNEL
DEFINITION:
FOUND IN THE NEWS:
The U.S. military exercise that shot live-fire artillery rounds over Interstate 5 on Saturday dropped metal shrapnel onto a California Highway Patrol protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance, agency officials said Sunday.
The Los Angeles Times -- 10/20/2025
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