Nickelodeon Lets Teachers Talk Back on a New Episode of Nick News With Linda Ellerbee Premiering Sunday, June 17 At 8:30 P.M. (Et/Pt)

Nickelodeon Lets Teachers Talk Back on a New Episode of Nick News With Linda Ellerbee Premiering Sunday, June 17 At 8:30 P.M. (Et/Pt)

NEW YORK, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Teachers may be the most important adults in kids' lives after their parents, but how well do kids know their teachers? In April 2005, Nick News allowed kids to voice their opinions about homework, standardized tests, and cafeteria food on the special, 10 Things I Hate About School. Now Nick News is giving teachers the same chance in a new episode of Nick News with Linda Ellerbee: Teachers Talk Back, premiering Sunday, June 17 at 8:30 p.m. ET/PT on Nickelodeon.

"It has been said that the mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates - and the great teacher inspires," said Ellerbee. "This show is fun, but revealing; it allows kids and teachers to realize that they just might have more in common then they thought."

Teachers Talk Back features teachers' thoughts and opinions about everything from homework and worn out classroom materials to what they love and hate about their job. In Nick News' 10 Things I Hate About School, kids said their teachers don't understand them. In this special, we meet a group of teachers in Binghamton, NY who've created a class called "Freshman Terminology" to help understand students' slang. Additionally, we learn that most teachers don't like giving homework any more than kids like getting it, and we meet Phil Lyons, a teacher from Palo Alto, CA who refuses to assign homework. Lyons claims homework does not help students succeed, but instead creates frustration and interferes with kids' home life and time to have fun.

Nick News, which last year celebrated its 15th year anniversary, is the longest-running kids' news show in television history, and has built its reputation on the respectful and direct way it speaks to kids about the important issues of the day. In 2005, it won the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming for its show, From the Holocaust to the Sudan. In 1994, the entire series, Nick News, won the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming. In 1998, "What Are You Staring At?" a program about kids with physical disabilities, won the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming. In 2002, "Faces of Hope: The Kids of Afghanistan," won the Emmy for Outstanding Children's Programming. In 2004, two Nick News Specials, "The Courage to Live: Kids, South Africa and AIDS" and "There's No Place Like Home," a special about homeless kids in America, were both nominated for the Outstanding Children's Programming Emmy. In fact, Nick News has received more than 20 Emmy nominations. Nick News, produced by Lucky Duck Productions, is also the recipient of three Peabody Awards, including a personal one given to Ellerbee for her coverage, for kids, of the President Clinton investigation; two Columbia duPont Awards; and more than a dozen Parents' Choice Awards.

Nickelodeon, in its 28th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books, magazines and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 92 million households and has been the number-one- rated basic cable network for almost 12 consecutive years. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA) (NYSE:VIA.B) .

Source: Nickelodeon

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