Study: Schools Can Develop News Readers
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Young adults are much more likely to read the newspaper if they were exposed to it in school, but television remains their primary source of news, according to a study conducted for the Newspaper Association of America Foundation.
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BBC education correspondent Mike Baker considers the issue of school admissions.
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Although print circulation continues falling, major American newspapers are experiencing a healthy rise in traffic to their websites. Most encouraging: The web editions are attracting a younger audience.
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A US study compares the news agenda of the mainstream media with that of three user-driven sources.
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Can "clearer" school tables tell us what we need to know, the BBC's Mike Baker asks.
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Connie Finch doesn't read a newspaper, but she picks up plenty each morning. At least one free newspaper is dropped at the end of her driveway each day, and she picks up more newspapers left by her neighbors.
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A study says high levels of computer technology can improve school results, but the picture is mixed.
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Children starting primary and secondary schools will receive free books to help raise reading levels,  Gordon Brown says.
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The story leads the TV news, and everyone  from schoolchildren to the prime minister is talking about it.
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Does the Harry Potter news make Scholastic a page-turner?
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A recent interest in comics as a literacy tool comes as graphic novels have cemented their status as sophisticated works of literature, and as teachers nationwide are struggling to boost reading scores.
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A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism found that user-generated news sites cover markedly different topics from mainstream news sites.
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Schools in the North-East are being offered an education tool that builds children's knowledge of the water cycle.
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It's not very often that you see something new in News.  News is not exactly new technology, but when personal computers came along, and then widespread networking, it created a whole new playing field for news, that has shaken things up for most of my life. Change comes in fits at starts. First there was the web, then RSS, and now I think we're on the cusp of another bit of change. If you want to see what I think it looks like, check out the home page of nytimesriver.com. But that's not the end of the story. A flat completely chronologic view of news probably isn't enough. And earlier this month at a meeting in NY, two engineers at the NY Times set me off in a new direction, with a very simple bit of advice. They told me to look in the HTML source code of their stories. When I did I saw they had applied a taxonomy to their news flow, and this opened the door to what I would like to show you today -- an outline view of the news.  http://nytimesriver.com/outline/  I believe it's fairly self-explanatory.  The topics are arranged in order of frequency in today's news.  In a previous rendering, the stories were shown in a histogram, but this view I think is much better. You can still see how many pieces relate to the indicated topic, but by clicking on the plus next to each topic, you can actually see the headlines and descriptions, and if you want more you can click through to the full stories. (Initially, the outline was sorted by frequency, with the most frequently occurring keyword appearing first. I changed it, based on feedback, to be alphabetic.) Now, there's still more to do, I showed this to a number of people during the weekend and got some excellent clues on ideas to pursue next, and I will do that. Further, in the process of exploring this, I've been shown the work of other developers who discovered the keywords on their own, and one in particular is very interesting. I'm hoping that these projects will come public so I can show them to you and tell you what I think they mean. This is what I live for, professionally -- the sense of being somewhere with great unexplored potential, a virgin landscape of the intellect. I'm never happier than when I get to play in such a place.  Om Malik: A new way to view news. Please comment on the screen shot page.
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A federal program to teach reading pressured schools to adopt a specific approach in order to receive funding.
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Using 'phonics' to teach reading and spelling gives children a sizeable head-start, a study says.
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The Idaho Press-Tribune has chosen Olive Software's ActivePaper Daily to distribute 2500 electronic editions to local schools.  In the true spirit of a hometown newspaper, the Idaho Press-Tribune brings information about sports teams, schools, and community events to its local readers.