20+ years of Kid Scoop expands youth readership

May 12, 2021

The Standard Banner publishes a monthly special section devoted to each one of the 11 schools in the county on a rotating basis. The schools share in-depth reports on projects within the curriculum. ...

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Kid Scoop helps parents and first-generation children learn English

Mar 4, 2021

During the 21 years the Daily Astorian has been publishing Kid Scoop, teachers in the school district incorporated the Kid Scoop page into daily classroom lesson plans. The children used the Kid Scoop ...

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Miles and the Monarchs, the 2021 NIE serial story, is here

Jan 14, 2021

Miles and the Monarchs centers on a father and son trip to see the final game of the 1942 Negro League World Series, between the Kansas City Monarchs and the Washington-Homestead Grays. Major League Baseball ...

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Great Idea Exchange ⁠— Missouri's Dennis Warden has enough great ideas to keep us busy for a while! PLUS, members share ad plans for holiday season

Oct 20, 2020

Recently, a friend directed me to Missouri publisher and NNA member, Dennis Warden in Owensville. In short, Warden is delighting his readers and making his advertisers happy with both an innovative ...

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Kid Scoop supports community program that raised graduation rates

Oct 1, 2020

The high school graduation rate of 70% in 2010 wasn’t good enough for school and community leaders including the Casper Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyoming. They got serious and created “We Read,” ...

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NIE serial story available to NNA members

Feb 1, 2020

The National Newspaper Association Foundation and the Missouri Press Foundation have been teaming up to produce an annual free Newspapers In Education (NIE) serial story for years. This year’s eight-installment ...

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Newspapers in Education and STEM serial story available to NNA members

Teachers asked for STEM-related materials and the Missouri Press Foundation’s Newspapers in Education answered. The 2019 serial story, Mr. Eads Bridge, written by Duane Porter, combines STEM and ...

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Adopt your own Newspaper In Education program

May 31, 2013

Newspaper In Education is more vital than ever in community newspapers as larger metropolitan newspapers have converted entirely to online editions or dropped outreach programs that introduced young readers ...

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