N.D. editor promotes 'news' for kids
Aims to boost literacy, cultivate newspaper habit
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After several years of declining scores, only one third of fourth graders in North Dakota are proficient in reading. Seeing that stark slide prompted one local newspaper publisher to act by providing a newspaper kids can call their own.
Currently around 30,000 of the Kid Scoop News newspapers are being distributed to 70-80 schools in the western half of North Dakota.
Hopes are, by the end of...
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