Word of the Day: embellish
This word has appeared in 36 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…
Should Human Sports Referees Be Mostly Replaced With Automated Ones?
The United States’ big professional sports leagues are moving toward technological systems for officiating games. Is that a good thing?
5 Ways to Stay Accountable to Your Learning Goals in 2025
Planning to learn to code in 2025? We know it can feel overwhelming — especially if you’ve never coded before. But you’ve got this! And we’ve put together a list of five tips and resources to help you stay accountable to your learning goals this year. Set bite-sized, achievable goals Setting a big, lofty goal…
3rd Trend – Performance
Do you have your time travel gear? Shoes? Old-timey dress wear? British accent, or can you fake one? Ability to enjoy open-air travel without a headache? Then if yes, enter the time travel machine. We are going on a journey. Set the time back to the ’70s or ’80s or ’60s, maybe the 50s, just…
3 Ways to Future-Proof Your University
By Shwetabh Mittal, Senior Director, Product Management This article was originally published in Campus Tech, January 2021. When the pandemic led to the initial shutdown of university campuses in early February, Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China, was among the first to move all its courses to an online format. By April, at the height…
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What Do You Think of Barbie?
“Barbie,” the movie, was the blockbuster hit of the summer, earning over $1.4 billion worldwide, and demonstrating that Barbie, the 64-year-old plastic doll, still holds an important place in our collective psyche. Did you ever play with Barbies? Have you seen the movie — and if so, what was your reaction? Even though Barbie never…
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…
What Students Are Saying About Summer School, Outspoken Athletes and Zoom...
The National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and several major sports leagues attract millions of fans from across the country and the world. It isn’t expected for athletes to only be athletes with these huge platforms. I believe athletes can use their platforms to spread important messages and act as influencers. More…
Past Stories
‘Now Is Our Time to Assemble’: The Week 6 Winner of...
Our annual Summer Reading Contest invites teenagers around the world to tell us what New York Times pieces get their attention and why. This week, the sixth of our 10-week challenge, we received 1,006 entries. Thank you to everyone who participated, and congratulations to our winner, Nathaniel Tok, as well as to the runners-up and…
The Winners of Our 7th Annual Student Podcast Contest
“If You Destroy the Root, You Kill the Whole Plant” by Isaac Abraham, 16, The Hun School of Princeton, Princeton, N.J.“Inside Interviews” by Grace Chaille, 16, Canterbury High School, Fort Wayne, Ind.“Intersectionationalism: The Dual Dehumanization of Queer Refugees” by Rhys Adams, 16, Milton Academy, Milton, Mass.“Jack Martin” by Jack Martin, 15, Neenah High School, Neenah,…
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…
Is Your School a Safe Learning Space?
What makes an ideal learning environment for you — physically, socially, intellectually, emotionally? Does your school environment make you feel welcome, supported and able to thrive and grow? Do you feel like you would learn more, perform better and thrive more fully in a learning environment where everyone shares your race, gender or identity? Why…
IIT Guwahati Launches Online Bachelor of Science (Honours) Degree in Data...
By Coursera The new program offers multiple admission pathways to expand access and grow talent pool for generative AI and data science jobs; Applications open July 19, 2023 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India’s #7 top engineering institute, has launched an online Bachelor of Science (Hons) Degree Program in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence…