The Newspaper In Education program has been in existence for more than 30 years. More than 76.5% of the daily newspapers in America have an NIE Program.

It is an international system of cooperation between school districts and their local newspapers.

Students at all grade levels use the newspaper as a vital part of their daily studies.

In the educational literature of the past 30 years, research has shown that:

Newspaper use in school increases student awareness about the world at large and the immediate community, and has a positive effect on student attitudes toward school, community and subject matter. Students who used newspapers as a principal source material had better achievement scores in social studies, language arts and mathema- tics than their matched counterparts, who relied only on textbooks.

In one study, reading skills increased by two grade levels for students who used newspapers, as compared to those using traditional methods.