• May 15, 2003

Using newspapers as a teaching tool in the classroom improves student performance on standardized tests, according to a study conducted for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation by Dan Sullivan, a professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The study measures the impact of Newspaper In Education programs, which promote the use of newspapers as an educational resource and curriculum tool. The study found that Students in schools with at least some NIE programs did better on standardized reading tests than those in schools with no NIE programs. Low-income, minority, and non-native English-speaking students benefited significantly from NIE programs. It also showed that students at middle schools and high schools with a high concentration of those demographics (and that have significant NIE programs) scored higher than their counterparts at schools without such programs.