How Can Teen Pages and Newspapers In Education Work Together

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How Can Teen Pages and Newspapers In Education
Work Together?
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What is NIE?
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In Our Schools

• Measuring Success! Study
• Developing critical readers
• Relating world issues to local news

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Being a young mother can affect ones education.
Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of high
school. One study in 2001 found that women who
gave birth during their teens completed secondary
level schooling 10-12 percent as often and
pursued post-secondary education 14-29 percent as
often as women who waited until age 30.
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Socioeconomic and psychological
outcomes of teenage pregnancy, Wikipedia.org
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Its hard. I have to get up really early and
get him dressed, and then I have to get dressed
myself and then come to school. Its just really
hard sometimes, said Capital Senior Erika
Hatchel, whose son Marshall attends daycare at
the high school.
-Flipside Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV
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An Important Audience

• On the verge of the real world
• Future news readers
• It all comes down to well informed teens.

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Working Together

• Youth editor and NIE professional partnership
• Benefits everyone

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The Teen Advisory Board

• NIE youth education
• Teen leaders become liaisons
• Working for everyone
• Teacher outreach
• Recruit sponsors
• Public Relations

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Readers Today,Leaders Tomorrow
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2006 Teen Fellows

• Brittany Biesiada
• Rebecca Espinosa
• Gabby Gee
• Emily Hamsher
• Andre Haughton
• Samantha Liggett
• Stephanie McMullen

• Kaitlin Paulson
• Nikki Roberti
• Serenity Self
• Katie Thisdell
• Christopher Thomas
• Kiersten Timpe