newspapers in education : About Us
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Tucson's Newspapers in Education program supports schools and educators throughout Southern Arizona.
Each year, the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen are delivered to more than 300 public private and charter schools throughout Tucson and Southern Arizona.
During the school year, over 12,000 papers are made available each school day to classrooms, thanks to the generosity of newspaper subscribers who donate their paper through the Vacation Donation program. The newspapers offer special content and guides to assist teachers as they use the newspaper in the classroom and to help schoolchildren develop the daily reading habit.
Last year, approximately 1.8 million Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen newspapers were delivered to Southern Arizona schools; about 1 million of those were from vacationing readers who donated their newspapers while they were out of town. The rest of the papers were bought at a discounted rate by schools or sponsored by businesses or individuals. Sponsoring a classroom for the entire school year costs $31.50. This gives the classroom one paper each school day.
Donated papers are put in an account and drawn out as teachers want them, such as when there is special content (Earth Day, book serials and special sections) in addition to daily delivery.
Schools use the newspapers for reading, social studies, math and life skills. Teachers receive guides and other materials to help them integrate the paper into the curriculum.
Who is Janet Wood and why does she love newspapers?
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| Contact info To contact NIE manager Janet Wood, call 573-4495 or e-mail janetwood@tucson.com. |
Janet Wood manages the Newspapers in Education Program. A native Tucsonan, she started reading our local papers when she was 4. She and her dad, Fred McDerment, would read the comic Alley Oop together each Sunday.
Janet earned a B.A. in secondary education at the University of Arizona and a M.Ed. there as well. She did additional graduate work in communications management at the University of Southern California.
When she was going to school in the 1960s, NIE wasn't in place in the schools she attended (Howell, Duffy, Townsend and Rincon).
It's now in all Tucson-area high schools and middle schools, and about a quarter of the elementary schools. Papers also go to charter and private schools, as well as schools in Sierra Vista, Bisbee, Douglas, Tombstone, Benson, Elfrida, Sells and Safford.
How to support NIE
Sponsoring a classroom for the entire school year costs $31.50. This gives the classroom one paper each school day. Contact NIE manager Janet Wood, at 573-4495 or e-mail janetwood@tucson.com.
To donate your paper while you are on vacation,
call Customer Service at 573-4511. Vacation Donation papers are put in an account and drawn out as teachers want them, such as when there is special content (Earth Day, book serials and special sections) in addition to daily delivery.
Vacation Donation program
While you're on vacation, why not put your newspaper to work?
When you leave town you may elect to donate the credit for your temporarily stopped newspapers to the NIE Classroom Literacy Fund.
Throughout the school year, thousands of area students will be developing fundamental reading, writing and math skills as well as social skills and citizenship thanks to you. Newspapers in Education supports these school goals by providing newspapers, education programs and student materials.
You can help support students, too, by calling 573-4511 when you go on vacation. It's easy: Just tell the customer service representative you want your newspapers to work in school classrooms while you're away.
