Teachers from various schools view material highlighted by Norma Rochester (right) during a Newspaper-in-Education workshop on Thursday, February 28. From left are: Letiesha Richards from Charlemont High, Shirley Pinnock from Ewarton high, Mitzie Cohen and her co-worker Kerrian Mattie from McGrath High. - Peta-Gaye Clachar/Staff Photographer

Pearl Harrison, principal of Ewarton High School, said students who purchased The Gleaner's products, especially the Youthlink magazine, have done better in their academics than those who didn't.

According to Harrison, students in the lower school from grades seven to nine purchase the The Gleaner products more often at the institution. Harrison said, "This school is committed to buying the newspapers, as the information in The Gleaner is current and vital to the students."

She commended the newspaper for the wide range of topics it contains, as those students who sat their Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate overall did well this year.

Shirley Pinnock, home economics and English language teacher at the institution, volunteered at a staff meeting to attend the second series of The Gleaner's Newspaper-in-Education workshops last April. Pinnock told The Gleaner that "the information and strategies in the workshop presented by the facilitator was in keeping with what the students shared among themselves." She stressed further that the workshop helped her as a teacher to become more rounded and allowed her more flexibility to teach mome economics as well as English language to her students.

She informed The Gleaner about the strategies gleaned from the workshop, as the students learned how to use headlines in the various pages of the paper and how to incorporate them in all subjects, especially sections dealing with opinions, editorials, biographies and sports. Pinnock said, "The Gleaner newspaper contains a lot of current affairs and additional resource material."