FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: USE THE NEWS ANNOUNCES NEWSPRINT TABLOID FOR GRADES 2 – 5 HERE COMES THE MILLENNIUM LEADING EDUCATIONAL COMPANY PROVIDES NEW TOOL FOR ELEMENTARY TEACHERS IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NEWSPAPER IN EDUCATION

(San Francisco, CA, January 13, 1999) Use The News, one of the nation’s fastest-growing educational services companies, announced the publication of a colorful new tabloid for Newspaper in Education (NIE) programs entitled Here Comes the Millennium.

The new publication offers elementary school teachers of grades two through five exercises and activities they can use to help children understand the millennium. Using cartoon figures, the 15-page tabloid incorporates the concepts of clocks and calendars in reading, writing, drawing, geography, history and art projects for students.

Activities encourage students to read and clip stories from their local newspapers to complete the projects. Examples of student activities include Ages in Our History, in which students find pictures in the paper that represent the ages of our time; Millennium Collage, where students assemble images and words that depict their vision of the coming millennium; and Thinking About Time, which instructs students to interview older relatives about the lifestyle changes they’ve seen.

"This new tabloid makes an exciting way to learn about one of the biggest events in the news — the millennium!" said Dr. Sherrye Dee Garrett, author of the Use The News tabloid. "It’s a way to enrich lessons offered in standardized school textbooks and makes learning about this event more relevant to students," she said.

Here Comes the Millennium complements Use The News’ recently released teacher guide for middle and secondary curriculums, How to Survive the Millennium. Also written by

Dr. Garrett, this teacher guide includes a more complex examination of time and calendars, historical controversies, and local and world economics related to the millennium.

Use The News’ imaginative and colorful products are designed to build a long-lasting awareness of newspapers among students. The company’s publications are most often distributed in partnership with local newspapers’ Newspaper in Education programs or may be purchased directly from the publisher. Use The News is nationally recognized as one of the foremost purveyors of educational guides which enrich school courses with the use of newspapers for instruction.

Founded by Dr. Betty L. Sullivan and Dr. Garrett, Use The News offers a wide variety of teacher guides. It also works closely with many of the nation’s top newspapers in providing fully-produced, four-color, multi-page supplements which students use in conjunction with their daily local paper in their elementary, middle or high school study classes. Notable recent publications include Reach for the Rings, distributed by the United States Olympic Committee for the 1998 Winter Olympics, and Newspapers and the ’Net, in which students compare news coverage of their local papers with the coverage provided by national and international internet services. Welcome to the Newspaper introduces students to the essential aspects of producing a newspaper and is often distributed to school groups touring newspaper facilities or studying journalism. Welcome to the Newspaper includes discussions of major topics such as "what is newsworthy?," the importance of Features, Sports and Opinion pages and more.

Use The News has provided services to newspapers and newspaper-related organizations throughout the United States and Canada such as The New York Times, San Francisco Newspaper Agency, USA Weekend, Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service, Newspaper Association of America Foundation, Pennsylvania Newspaper Association Foundation, Michigan Press Association, NIE Information Service and numerous others.

International clients include the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Tokyo), Media in Education Foundation of South Africa (Durban), The Joong-ang Ilbo (Seoul), The Star (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) and others. The Use The News non-newspaper client list includes the United States Olympic Committee, American Bar Association Division for Public Education and Harvard University Institute on Media Education.

Use The News Foundation was established in 1998. It serves as a non-profit fiscal sponsor to Newspaper in Education programs nationwide and provides technical assistance on strategies, grant proposal development, identification of partners and project verification and evaluation.

Teachers or administrators who are interested in learning more about the use of newspapers in their schools, or publishers of newspapers who are interested in creating expanded partnerships through their Newspaper in Education programs, can contact Use The News at (415) 861-1637, visit the Web site at www.usethenews.com, or e-mail bettysnie@aol.com.