Word + Quiz: turgid
turgid ˈtər-jəd adjective1. ostentatiously lofty in style2. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas_________The word turgid has appeared in 12 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Sept. 27 in “Finn Wittrock of ‘Judy’ Visits His Old Juilliard Haunts” by Aaron Hicklin:Entering the thicket of the Ramble, the sounds of the…
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…
If You Could Change the Laws of Nature, What Would You...
Would you want to be able to time travel? To be in two places at once? To predict whether someone would laugh at your joke? Share your wildest ideas.
Teenagers in The Times: November 2021
Here is the November edition of Teenagers in The Times, a roundup of the news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com. We publish a new edition on the first Thursday of each month.For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see…
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If You Could Design Any Museum Exhibition, What Would It Be?
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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…
Word + Quiz: rarefied
rarefied ˈrer-ə-ˌfīd adjective1. of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style2. having low density_________The word rarefied has appeared in 99 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 27 in the book review “Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life” by Daphne Merkin:What…
6 Tech Products Invented by AAPI Technologists
May is Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the 2024 theme is all about paying homage to AAPI leaders who’ve driven progress through innovation. From groundbreaking inventions to transformative advancements, AAPI individuals have played a pivotal role in shaping the technological landscape of America. Despite facing cultural and systemic challenges, AAPI innovators’ resilience and…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Four Studies of Black Healing’
4. Read the introduction of chapter two, “Relationships,” that begins with, “During this journey….” Then, as you read the rest of the section, choose one image and one quote that you think best illustrates the main idea from the introduction. Explain why you chose the image: What about it was particularly moving or evocative to…
Runners-Up From Our 9th Annual Student Editorial Contest
However, this English obsession is not without reason. According to a 2013 report, individuals who speak English fluently earn 34 percent more than those who cannot. English is essential in today’s globalized work force, but language acquisition should be accumulative, not subtractive. Research shows that high mother tongue proficiency makes learning a second language easier…
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Lesson Plan: NASA’s Mission to Save the World From a Possible...
A NASA spacecraft successfully smashed into a small asteroid and changed its orbit: Should we all sleep easier at night?
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…
Finding Your Power as an Introvert
We are all guilty to some degree of overlooking the quiet person in the room and giving our attention and confidence to the loudest individual. It’s often the extroverts who steal the limelight and whose confidence is viewed as being a direct qualification for promotion into a leadership role. But this is a mistake that…
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…
Get inspired by Emma’s empowering story of switching to a new...
Meet Emma, a data scientist and mother who successfully switched careers from technical sales to data science—while pregnant with her first child. She completed the IBM Data Science Professional Certificate while on maternity leave, seeing it as an opportunity to continue her personal learning and career growth even while caring for a newborn. As she…