They're dying a slow death. In fact, many people are unaware they still exist. But others, like me, refuse to let go. I'm talking about newspapers. In a world where it was common for a city to have as many as 7 daily newspapers, you'd be hard-pressed to find more than one. And that lone survivor is either struggling or soon to experience its demise. I recall one teacher I briefly worked with back in the 1980s who built his entire curriculum around the San Francisco Chronicle. In various programs that were available at the time, a class set of 35 papers would be sitting on the steps leading to his portable classroom every morning. Many of his peers were skeptical at first, but talking to his students, and observing his class on occasion, I could see how the newspaper offered material for just about every subject you could think of. He dis lessons on economics and math using the stock exchange. He used photographs to develop visu...
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