
Welcome to eSun in Education. eSun in Education provides classrooms with free online newspapers. In addition to the traditional K-12 schools, eSun in Education serves diverse learners of every age; charter & private schools, adult education programs, family literacy, juvenile detention, and college students are all eligible for eSun in Education services.
eSun in Education is the Daily News-Suns' commitment to literacy. Through generous sponsorship, this nonprofit program provides the online edition of newspaper, thematic units, lesson plans and curriculum guides at no cost to schools and educators at every level, including home schools and family literacy classrooms.
Newspapers are a living textbook - one that is always current, more appealing and less intimidating than regular course books. Critical thinking is the natural outgrowth of using a newspaper to learn. Unlike textbooks, which may be outdated by the time they get into student's hands, the online edition of the newspaper expands the curriculum with an unlimited amount of information to use as background for learning activities. Most importantly, as the cornerstone of civics literacy, the newspaper transforms students into interested active citizens.
Get unlimited access to The Daily News-Sun and eSun In Education through the Daily News-Sun e-paper online program. Register for your own eSun In Education account by completing this order form and emailing as an attachment to eSun@yourwestvalley.com or faxing to 623-876-3699.
Students may NOT register for eSun In Education. Exceptions to this are student teachers in an accredited university/college education program working towards your education degree/certificate. Student teachers must be assigned to a classroom setting.
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"Much has been said and written on the utility of newspaper; but one principal advantage which might be derived from these publications has been neglected; we mean that of reading them in schools, and by the children in families.
Try it for one session - Do you wish your child to improve in reading solely, give him a newspaper - it furnishes a variety, some parts of which must infallibly touch his fancy. Do you wish to instruct him in geography, nothing will so indelibly fix the relative situation of different places, as the stories and events published in the papers?
In time, do you wish to have him acquainted with the manners of the country or city, to the mode of doing business, public or private; do you wish him to have a smattering of every kind of science useful and amusing, give him a newspaper - the cheapest book that can be bought, and the more you buy the better for your children, because every part furnishes some new and valuable information."
June 8, 1795
Portland Eastern Herald

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