News sites in the classroom

News Web sites, not newspapers, are the tool of choice in US classrooms. Reuters reports that 57% of teachers use Net-based news “with some frequency,” a just-released survey of more than 1,200 teachers of grades 5-12 found. That compares with 31% who use TV news and 28% who use papers. Topping the list for news sites were the BBC, the New York Times, and CNN. “Teachers prefer printed papers, but only 8% said the newspaper was a student's preferred choice,” and 75% put papers at the bottom of the students’ preference list.