Mentoring Monday: Poor minority schools found to lack student media
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair I was interested in this blog post about high school media by Richard Prince on The Root. Prince comments on the study done by Peter Bobkowski, Mark Goodman and Candace Perkins Bowen that found poor minority schools lack student media. “Schools that reported having no student media had...
JEA Mentoring Committee meets to prepare for convention and the committee’s future activities
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair The Mentoring Committee met this evening to review progress, set goals, and discuss plans for activities during the JEA/NSPA convention. Tomorrow is the Mentor Forum, with about 20 mentors participating in a day-long workshop to be held at the Oregon Convention Center. Peggy, Bill and Judy will be...
Newspaper Association of American Foundation’s Student/Newspaper Partnernship Grant helps fund high school journalism programs; application deadline is April 15
by Julie Dodd JEA Mentoring Committee co-chair The Spring 2010 edition of JEA Mentoring Matters is almost completed. Linda Barrington, the newsletter editor and committee co-chair, is completing the last pages. The newsletter will be e-mailed to the mentors, the JEA board and others before the JEA/NSPA convention in Portland in less than two weeks....