Intended to provide information to the Iowa High School Press Association (IHSPA), this paper investigates the state of yearbook instruction and production in high schools, toward which direction the yearbooks are heading, and whether services offered to members by the IHSPA (conference sessions, the annual yearbook contest, and teaching handouts)…

Presents a unit on teaching service journalism to high school students, including (1) choosing a topic; (2) researching the topic; and (3) writing the story. Suggests several topics for service journalism. (MM)

Describes scholastic journalism as the teaching of secondary school students to gather, process, and present information to an audience. Offers a model focusing upon scholastic journalism's conceptual areas of law and ethics, history and cultural diversity, technology and financial support, media and content, pedagogy, and working context as a…

Intended to provide a comprehensive conceptual framework to serve as a scaffold for past, present, and future research on "scholastic journalism" (journalism in the secondary school), a topical content analysis of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Secondary Education Division research, teaching,…

To determine how extensive the phenomenon of printing high school newspapers on a page in the local professional paper is in Iowa, a preliminary study surveyed all Iowa high school principals and newspaper advisors in November 1987. The survey contained ten questions concerning school and school newspaper characteristics. Findings showed that the…

Describes how a high school yearbook workshop helped student photographers and editors learn to work together to produce unique and interesting yearbooks. (MM)

Describes a three-day workshop for teachers offered by the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Outlines the workshop's focus on overcoming social and cultural barriers to minority student involvement in journalism programs. Presents the four areas targeted for reaching out to minority students: recruiting, training,…

Points out that journalism teachers must address issues of diversity in the multicultural classroom. Considers strategies for the multicultural classroom, including (1) using cross-cultural materials and explaining why such materials are being used; (2) making assignments that allow students to pursue culture-specific knowledge; and (3) permitting…

Argues that both the students and the adviser must be responsible for ensuring that humorous or satirical articles in student publications are not libelous. (SRT)

This paper traces the history of 27 minority recruitment programs in scholastic journalism (targeted at high school students) from a national perspective. Based on the idea that a review of the history of any effort has value, the paper discusses the beginning stages of these efforts, how they developed, and what individuals and groups have taken…