Show newspaper school book course in the new york high schools which alie public knows little or nothing about but which has a great bearing in the education of the pupil that of learning to read the newspapers correctly was a short time ago established and is declared to bo meeting with great success the course conducted in connection with the study of city government such as lias been found to bo successful in the schools of chicago As there is no textbook text book that can coar this study the educators picked out the daily newspaper from which the students are expected to learn and digest all about the city speaking of this recently one of the school officials said there is no textbook text book for this work and naturally cannot bo one the material for this is always current and such textbook text book as we have will be the newspaper one thing of course it has already done 13 to teach the boys and girls to use intelligently the boys would open at the sporting page and then read only headlines forward and back the girls never read the papers at all they never knew the most common events of daily happenings now one of our exercises is for the classes to decide each day what was the most important piece of news in the paper western publisher |