Expectations of ‘Perfect’ English Are Elitist and Unrealistic
This essay, by Megan Luong, age 17, from Notre Dame High School in San Jose, Calif., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s 10th Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 12,592 entries.We are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up over the next week, and you can…
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…
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…
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…
Singapore offers hope to alleviate water scarcity problems
We live in a staggering reality: Experts say we are consuming natural resources faster than the earth can replenish them. The Global Footprint Network, a sustainability institution, says humanity is currently consuming nature 1.75 times faster than the planet can regenerate. Seeking options that allow us to diversify non-renewable natural resources is vital for the survival…
Word of the Day: hackneyed
This word has appeared in 20 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Coursera expands GenAI Academy with skills training and credentials for high-impact...
By Karine Allouche, General Manager of Enterprise, Coursera Today, we are excited to expand our GenAI Academy with GenAI for Teams. This new catalog from the world’s top research institutions and companies will equip teams to apply GenAI skills and best practices in a way that is unique to their business functions. According to Accenture,…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | May 3, 2023
Note: This is the final “What’s Going On in This Graph?” for the 2022-23 school year.This graph was previously published in The New York Times. It includes data through the first three weeks of each Major League Baseball (M.L.B.) season since 1980. How has the duration of baseball games changed this year, and how might…
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…
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…
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What is this image saying? How does it relate to or comment on society or current events? Can you relate to it personally? What is your opinion of its message?Tell us in the comments, then read the related Opinion essay to find out what it means.Find many more ways to use our Picture Prompt feature…
Word + Quiz: mitigate
mitigate ˈmi-tə-ˌgāt verb 1. lessen or try to lessen the seriousness or extent of 2. make less severe or harsh _________ The word mitigate has appeared in 511 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on March 18 in “Levi’s, Whose Jeans Are a Rugged Symbol of Americana, Prepares to Go Public”…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
Word + Quiz: spurious
spurious ˈspyu̇r-ē-əs adjective1. plausible but false2. intended to deceive3. born out of wedlock_________The word spurious has appeared in 40 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 27 in the theater review “In London, Contemporary Anxieties Take the Stage” by Matt Wolf:Telling of a surveillance state in which our every move…
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…