Thematic Collection of Teen Writing and Art About Friendship
Photos, videos, essays, stories and podcasts made by young people that explore the nuances of what it means to have and to be a friend.
What Do You Think of Our New Vocabulary Quizzes?
“It wasn’t a helicopter. And it wasn’t an airplane. It was a _____ between the two, with a curved hull, two small wings, and eight spinning rotors lined up across its nose and tail.”Which one of these words — breakdown, chaos, cross or mix-up — best completes this sentence from a New York Times article…
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 of the Day: proffer
proffer ˈprä-fər verb and nounverb: present for acceptance or rejectionnoun: a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection_________The word proffer has appeared in 38 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Aug. 5 in “The Maldives Knows Y.O.L.O.” by Sheila Yasmin Marikar:It doesn’t seem possible that a nation like this — 1,200…
City Skateboarding
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Use the video above to inspire the opening of a short story or poem — or tell us about a memory from your own life that this image makes you think of. Consider writing from the perspective…
What’s Going On in This Picture? | March 30, 2020
Students1. After looking closely at the image above (or at the full-size image), think about these three questions:2. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post…
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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…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | April 7, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.These maps show the growing zones (also called hardiness zones) for two time periods — one historical and one projected. The zones are based on the coldest temperature of the year at each location averaged over a…
Can Poetry Make a Difference in Our Lives and in the...
How important is poetry in your life? Do you read or write it? Do you ever turn to poems when you are feeling lost or overwhelmed? When you need comfort or direction?Do you think poetry has the power to make a difference — in our individual lives and in the world?In the guest essay “How…
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 ‘Life by the Numbers,’ Accents and...
For this week’s roundup of student comments on our writing prompts, we asked teenagers to share stories about their current lives using numbers, explain what their regional accent means to them and share their thoughts on protesting during a pandemic.We’d like to give a warm welcome to the new students who joined the conversation this…
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Understanding open source software: A Q&A
We recently started sponsoring open source projects through our newly-launched fund — Codecademy Open Source Sponsorships. This year, we’re committed to spending at least $10,000 toward financing open source software projects that our engineers regularly rely on.“At Codecademy, we love open source software,” says Josh, a Senior Software Engineer here at Codecademy. “All of us…
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 of the Day: treatise
This word has appeared in 87 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Learning With: ‘Flooding in Mozambique From Cyclone Idai Made an “Inland...
4. What kinds of relief and aid efforts are underway? How has the flooding affected these efforts? 5. Why have relief efforts focused on the city of Beira in Mozambique? How did the cyclone affect this port city in particular? 6. Nick Mangwana, a spokesman for the Zimbabwean government, said on Twitter: This cyclone has…
Watch: ‘A Move’
4. Next, join the conversation by clicking on the comment button and posting in the box that opens on the right. (Students 13 and older are invited to comment, although teachers of younger students are welcome to post what their students have to say.)5. After you have posted, try reading back to see what others…
What’s Going On in This Graph? | March 27, 2024
On Wednesday, March 27, teachers from our collaborator, the American Statistical Association, will facilitate this discussion from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Eastern time.5. By Friday morning, March 29, we will reveal more information about the graph, including a free link to the article that includes this graph, at the bottom of this post. We…