What’s Going On in This Picture? | April 26, 2021
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.1. 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…
What Is Your Dream Travel Destination?
Which of The Times’s “52 Places to Go in 2023” would you like to visit most and why?
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 Are the Most Memorable Things You’ve Seen or Experienced in...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.How often do you spend time in nature? How closely do you observe your surroundings? Has the pandemic changed your relationship with the natural world in any way? If so, how?In honor of Earth Day, we invite…
What Is Your Reaction to the Recent Wave of Anti-Transgender Legislation?
In her piece, published Jan. 25, she reported that there were more than 150 anti-transgender bills proposed in at least 25 state legislatures. By mid-April, that number had increased to over 400 bills in at least 45 states. At least 29 of those bills have become law.Do those numbers surprise you? Have you recently noticed…
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7 Tips for Learning from Home While Social Distancing
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people the world over are learning from home for the first time. Students are attending school in virtual classrooms. And millions of others are spending time learning new skills while social distancing.We know that doing so from home can be tough, whether you're learning to code or another skill. That's…
GUEST POST: How Exercise Improves Student Mental Health
The activity connectionIn the last decade, research on the link between exercise and mental health has increased significantly. A paper (4) reviewed the research since 2011 into the link between exercise and depression, self-esteem, anxiety and cognitive functioning and found that the strongest link was found between exercise and cognitive function. For depression, the intervention…
Riddle Me This
A recent Times article delved into the history of the crossword puzzle, emphasizing how often riddles are used to create some of the more tantalizing clues. Do you like solving riddles — or do you find them more vexing than entertaining? Have you ever had to create a riddle for a class or school project?…
How I Went From Project Manager to UX Designer in 3...
Learning to code so that you can land a job in tech can feel daunting. That's why we're sharing inspiring stories from Codecademy's community — to show how people like you (yes, you!) can embark on a learning journey and end up with a totally new career. We hope these stories serve as a reminder…
What’s New at Codecademy: Reinforcement Learning & AI Agents
Welcome to our centralized hub for all new course launches and updates at Codecademy. Here, you’ll find an up-to-date record of what’s new so you can easily discover fresh learning opportunities, figure out who a course is best suited for, or just jump right in and start. We’re always launching new courses and fine-tuning our…
How Much Do You Know About Iran?
Can you find Iran on a map? What else do you know about this Middle Eastern nation with about 83 million people?
Past Stories
A New Cancer Treatment That Is Faster, More Efficient and Less...
This essay, by William Chesney, 15, from Ethical Culture Fieldston School in the Bronx, N.Y., is one of the top eight winners of the Learning Network’s first-ever STEM Writing Contest, for which we received 1,618 entries. You can find the work of all of our student winners here.A New Cancer Treatment That Is Faster, More…
Nature’s Solution to Plastic Pollution: The Amazing Power of the Wax...
We are honoring the top 10 winners of our Student STEM Writing Contest by publishing their essays. This one is by Justin Wang.
Learner Story – Rosie
Rosie Youngman, 20, used FutureLearn to supplement her revision for her A-Level exams. Here she shares how one of FutureLearn’s courses helped her to achieve higher than her predicted grade in A-Level biology and how she is now using the platform to prepare for the world of work.FutureLearn was recommended to Rosie by her college…
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 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…
100 Years of Furniture
The bean bag chair. The water bed. The sectional couch. Do you have a favorite piece of furniture, either in your home — or in your dreams? Which designs would you nominate to a Furniture Hall of Fame?The Times recently asked six experts to make a list of the most influential pieces of furniture from…