
National Tolkien Reading Day
StartFragment J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Story and Language “A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” J.R.R. Tolkien March 25th is National Tolkien Reading Day, and if there has ever been an author who was an imaginative master-mind at world-building, it was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Though born in Bloemfontein, South Africa on January 3, 1892, Tolkien grew up in England. He had great facility for languages, not only did he master Latin and Greek, he also b

Newspapers in Education
StartFragment Newspapers in Education will be observed in March this year. This is a cooperative effort between newspapers and schools for instruction, and the newspaper may sponsor teacher-education programs including curriculum materials as resources for student learning. Newspapers often provide copies of the paper to the schools for use in the classroom at a reduced rate. A newspaper may be a corporately-owned enterprise, part of a larger company that owns and operates ma