History
For over twenty years Newspapers In Education, local businesses, organizations, and individuals have been providing area classrooms with the Temple Daily Telegram as a supplement to classroom curriculums. The Newspapers In Education program has been a vital link between schools and an important source of information - the daily newspaper.

Through the Newspapers In Education program, area students from Kindergarten through High School use the newspaper to enhance a variety of subjects including basic reading and letter recognition to economics, history, geography, grammar, and math. Very young students search out and circle the letters of their name on the front page, math students learn to calculate averages using sports page statistics, and high school economics students learn to live on a budget using classified and sales ads for jobs, housing, food, and transportation.

Involvement
From September through May the Newspapers In Education program also provides monthly tabloids to classrooms on various subjects. Titles for the 2008-2009 supplemental materials include "Art in Earth" and "Buggin". Each tabloid is chosen to coincide with a specific monthly event such as Literacy week in September, Geography Awareness in November, and the Holiday season.

The Newspapers In Education program also sponsors the annual Golden Apple Awards. These awards are a way to support local teachers by recognizing teaching excellence by encouraging students and former students to write a short essay about a teacher who has impacted their life in a positive way.

Newspapers In Education has also been sponsoring the annual Bell County Spelling Bee for over twenty years. Students from all Bell County public and private middle schools are invited to participate in the contest each spring. The coveted "Traveling Trophy", awarded to the winning school, currently resides at Bonham Middle School.

Each Autumn, Newspapers In Education sponsors the "Tribute to My Hero" essay contest. All students in grades 3 through 12 are eligible to send in an essay that details a person in their life whom they consider a real hero.

The Newspapers In Education coordinator also conducts tours of the Telegram facility for school groups or organizations and is available to give presentations for individual classrooms, organizations, or school wide programs.

For more information about the Temple Daily Telegram's Newspapers in Education program, email pmarek@tdtnews.com.