This study utilizes a national survey of college newspaper advisers to assess the internal workings of the college newspaper and its value as a pedagogical tool. It finds significant differences between the degree of audience and marketing coupling occurring within college and U.S. daily newspapers as well as differences in student autonomy among…

Supporting nontraditional students within the student lifecycle is one of the major challenges faced by urban universities. This study presents a pedagogical intervention in which a group of Hispanic students participated in an engaged learning project with a bilingual newspaper. Findings indicate that this project motivated students to complete…

"Harvard Education Letter" is published bimonthly at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. This issue of "Harvard Education Letter" contains the following articles: (1) Learning Progressions in Science: A New Approach Emphasizes Sustained Instruction in Big Ideas (Patti Hartigan); (2) Putting the "Boy Crisis" in…

Whitefish Bay High School recently celebrated its 75th anniversary, and the author wanted his students to remember this event for many years. As a U.S. history teacher, he also wanted to find a way for them to understand that their high school's history has coincided with national events and trends over the past seven decades. He decided to use a…

Suggests the use of a high school journalism class for training leaders of the school newspaper, for developing reporters, and for creating a sales staff. (TJ)

Discusses how editorial leadership for a school newspaper is chosen, how each newspaper is prepared for production, and how evaluation of each issue and of the staff occurs. (TJ)

Offers several tips borrowed from fiction writing for creating lively feature articles. (TO)

Describes the use of local "VIP press conferences" to stimulate student editorial writing. (HOD)

Provides guidelines for implementing R.I.O.--research, interviewing, observation--for improving yearbook and newspaper copy. (KS)

Summarizes ten steps in the reporting process in order to help students develop their reporting skills. (TJ)

Discusses three problems commonly found in school newspapers: leads that fail to get immediately to the heart of the story, editorializing within stories, and incorrect headlining. (TJ)

Presents five situations and possible responses to ethical issues faced by editors of student media organizations. (RS)

Presents several ideas for enlivening newspaper writing without sacrificing accuracy or coverage. (TO)

Describes one school's use of microcomputers for the school newspaper and literary magazine and the advantages of this method. (HTH)