The Leaving Certificate programme in Ireland is a two year programme for upper second-level students and culminates in them sitting externally-set high stakes State examinations. Students' experiences of the programme are dominated by these assessment demands and the level of media coverage of these examinations has been deemed 'extraordinary' by…

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has become a catch phrase in development discourse. This study is an assessment of the MDG 3: to promote gender equality at all levels of education in Ghana. The Daily Graphic (a newspaper in Ghana) which is Ghana's prominent newspaper was reviewed from 2000 to 2011 to determine the frequency of articles…

This article focuses on how Dutch newspapers represented the debate in the Netherlands in the 1970s on comprehensive education and thus influenced the Dutch Middle School experiment. Wiborg's identification of key factors of success in Scandinavia was used as a point of reference. The article shows that these key factors did not exist in the…

Suggests several ideas for getting and producing advertisements in the school newspaper. (TO)

Based on the personal experiences and observations of a person who has worked in the field of high school, collegiate, and professional journalism, this paper discusses the professional press as a preface to examining scholastic publications. The comments on the professional press are: financial stability is necessary for a newspaper to enjoy its…

Suggests using newspapers as models and instructional material for learning how to write newspaper stories. (TJ)

This paper presents guidelines for the chief student personnel administrator in implementing editorial policies related to freedom of expression in the sanctioned student newspaper. The guidelines are: (1) the function of the student newspaper should be clearly defined and agreed upon by the students, faculty and administrators; (2) the function…

Argues that the best newspaper writing today is in sports but that sportswriting in most school newspapers is dull; offers suggestions for improvement in overall approach, leads, avoidance of cliches and use of action words, quotes, and avoidance of bias. Includes four student-written sports stories. (GT)

Tells how small news articles can be "packaged" to provide visual impact on a newspaper page and to help clean the appearance of a newspaper. (GT)

This book, which is primarily addressed to the high school journalism student and teacher, discusses what depth reporting is and how it is done. Depth reporting is understood to be a relating of the facts so that the reader can fully understand them. It includes such activities as observing, supplying background information, humanizing the news,…

Discusses the elements of quality editorial writing. Briefly follows the development of the editorial page through U.S. history and offers strategies to ensure concise, persuasive student editorials. (HTH)

Discusses the advantages of and guidelines for publishing a school news page in the community newspaper. (HTH)

Suggests books about publication design; discusses current trends in school newspaper design; and provides reproductions of gridded newspaper page layouts from student newspapers and of layouts from professional newspapers. (GT)

Provides examples of attention-getting headlines from school and commercial newspapers and lists rules for writing clever, effective headlines. (GW)

Presents a case study of one student newspaper adviser's approach to gaining freedom of the press for a high school newspaper. (TO)