Carol Mauro-Noon Assumes Helm at Instructor Magazine

Posted on January 14, 1999

Scholastic Inc., a global children's publishing and media company, has announced the appointment of Carol Mauro-Noon as Editor in Chief of Instructor Magazine which is read by more than one million teachers of grades K - 8. Mauro-Noon brings twenty years of editorial and educational experience to this position. She will report directly to Hugh Roome, Executive Vice President, Scholastic Consumer and Professional Magazines.

"Instructor has been the leading magazine for teachers for over 100 years because it has adapted to the fundamental changes in American schools," said Roome. "With Carol, the magazine enters a new phase -- helping teachers cope with the challenges of the very different learning needs of children in the next millennium and with the extraordinary educational potential of digital technologies. By 2005 there will be four million teachers -- making them the largest professional group in the world -- which challenges us to redouble our efforts on Instructor to provide the single most valuable professional resource for a new generation of teachers."

Since 1990, Mauro-Noon has been a consultant and/or editor on a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Prudential investment newsletters, and Working Mother. She has conducted editorial workshops at New York University and seminars at writers conferences across the country. She has been copy chief and associate editor of Saturday Review and Esquire, associate editor of Dial, managing editor of Working Woman and executive editor of New Choices magazine. A former teacher, Mauro-Noon earned a master's degree in reading.

Instructor, founded in 1891 and acquired by Scholastic in 1989, is the longest continuously published magazine for teaching professionals in the United States. "With authors like Dr. Tatum, a distinguished group of master teachers on our advisory board, a dedicated and creative staff and the resources of Scholastic behind us, Instructor will remain a major influence for teaching professionals in the next century," added Mauro-Noon.