2022-23 Student Opinion Writing Prompts
114. Do You Have Any Intergenerational Friendships? 115. What Slang Words Do You Use? 116. What Are You Doing to Take Care of Your Health? 117. Have You Ever Written Fan Mail? If Not, Would You? 118. How Much Do You Share With Your Friends? 119. How Good Are You at Apologizing? 120. What Is…
Word + Quiz: plangent
plangent ˈplan-jənt adjective : loud and resounding _________ The word plangent has appeared in 20 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Nov. 25 in the theater review “In ‘All Is Calm,’ Thrilling Song in the Trenches” by Alexis Soloski: A caroling session in a melancholy key, Theater Latté Da’s “All…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
What Students Are Saying About Hometown Pride, Pandemic Dreams and a...
Green Bay is huge on football and cheese. I love the culture there, and the people. Everyone there is great people, and we all love the same things, and end up creating a great community in the town. I miss my hometown, and I’m excited every time I visit there.— Andrew, Hoggard High School, Wilmington,…
Learning With: ‘Pennsylvania Honors the Snot Otter. It’s Not Even the...
Before reading the article: Most states in the United States and countries around the world have an animal that symbolizes their state or country. Off the top of your head, do you know any of your official state or national animals? If not, take a look at this list of state animals in the United…
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Empathy: What it is and how it enhances all of the...
If you’ve been poking around in the comment sections of this high-impact workplace skills series, you’ll notice one theme has come up on several occasions, and that’s empathy. The ability to empathize—to really hear, understand, and feel for other people—is a core interpersonal skill that unlocks deeper capabilities and drives effectiveness when working with others.…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Learning About Slavery With Primary Sources
Then, if you would like to further investigate the broadside from a historical lens, you can use a document analysis worksheet from the National Archives. There are two worksheet options for written documents: one for secondary students and one for younger students and English-language learners.Part IIIf you would like more background, take some time to…
5 Tips from an OpenAI Machine Learning Engineer
Everyone wants to talk about AI, more specifically, OpenAI’s GPT, the most advanced large multi-modal model out there. Last week, we had the opportunity to chat with Ted Sanders, a Machine Learning Engineer at OpenAI, whose job it is to explore what GPT is bad at and try to improve it. Naturally, we have lots…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | May 4, 2026
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see.
How to debug your code
A software bug is an error that happens in an application causing it to return an invalid result or to function incorrectly. A bug can result from incorrectly written code, errors in a compiler, or even hardware issues. In this article, w'll be looking at code-specific bugs because those are usually created inadvertently by programmers.Don't…
Past Stories
Word of the Day: ominous
The word ominous has appeared in 339 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on May 1 in “An Art Professor Says A.I. Is the Future. It’s the Students Who Need Convincing” by Zachary Small:The evening started with a provocation. Weiler asked everyone to close their eyes and imagine what values should be passed…
Weekly Accessible Learning Activities: Skateboarding, Six-Word Memoirs and Spooky Season
Each Wednesday we shine a spotlight on five student activities that support a broad range of learners. In this week’s roundup of accessible activities, we invite students to explore the world of skateboarding, write a six-word memoir about their pandemic experience, and try their hand at the New York Times Spelling Bee game.Note: To learn…
Should We Bring Back Animals From Extinction?
Have you ever seen the movie “Jurassic Park” or one of its sequels? It tells the story of an eccentric businessman who creates a theme park of cloned dinosaurs from prehistoric DNA, only to have his dreams ruined when the resurrected Tyrannosaurus rex and other ferocious predators escape and endanger the lives of the no-longer-thrilled…
Lawyer, or law professional?
The title ‘lawyer’ has long been coveted. It’s the respect, the earning potential, and the opportunity to fight on behalf of vulnerable people that continues to inspire pursuit of the role. A law degree is the first step, but even then, nothing is guaranteed. The prerequisites for employment can be intimidating, and hunt for employment…
Word of the Day: sublimity
This word has appeared in five articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…