<div>Read all about it — the City Council last week passed, by voice vote, a nonbinding resolution calling on the city Department of Education to fund a student newspaper in every high school. We hope the DOE pays heed.Aside from the fact that the city, nation and world need competent journalists as much as ever, while their numbers are instead declining, the Council points out that there seems to be a correlation between having a school paper and having a good school. And there is certainly a correlation between having a newspaper and having money.A 2022 study by Baruch College that the Council resolution cited heavily found that 58 percent of high schools with the best graduation rates have newspapers. Only 6 percent of schools with the lowest graduation rates do. The study examined traditional district schools, excluding charters.Among the 100 high schools with the highest poverty rates, only 7 percent have papers. Among the 50 schools with the lowest poverty rates, 62 percent do. And all of the specialized high schools, the “elite eight,” have them.Since we’re in the news business, we naturally want to encourage young people to become involved with writing for their school papers, and for the rest of their classmates to read them. Since 2008 we’ve even been designing and printing newspapers for a handful of city schools, ranging from an elementary and middle school in South Queens to a high school in Long Island City.Every high school also should offer journalism classes. Everyone’s focused on STEM this and hydroponics that, but students need to learn better writing, better communications. Newswriting is, traditionally, different from other kinds of writing taught in schools. For one thing, you have to get right to the point. You’re not looking to add long adjectives to fill the number of pages demanded in a term paper; you’re looking to cut extra words to make it fit (just now we had “extraneous” and realized we should go with “extra”).And budding reporters aren’t the only ones who benefit from taking journalism classes or being on the school newspaper. Good writing skills are vital to an ever-greater number of professions, beyond the ones that might come right to mind, such as education, advertising, marketing or the law. A lot of communication in all areas is done via email now. Also, someone who knows how to write news is more likely to know how to read news, to discern what’s real and what’s not. And we all know how vital a skill that has become.</div>

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Read all about it — the City Council last week passed, by voice vote, a nonbinding resolution calling on the city Department of Education to fund a student newspaper in every high school. We hope the DOE pays heed. Aside from the fact that the city, nation and world...

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Read all about it — the City Council last week passed, by voice vote, a nonbinding resolution calling on the city Department of Education to fund a student

A newspaper in every high school

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