When Should School Mask Mandates Be Lifted?
What are the mask rules in your school right now? Do you think they need to change?As the surge in coronavirus cases brought by the Omicron variant recedes across the United States, governors in several states have started lifting mask mandates for indoor public spaces and schools. Public health experts disagree on whether these changes…
Should Schools Require Students to Get the Coronavirus Vaccine?
Were you required to receive certain vaccinations, such as those for protection against chickenpox or measles, before attending school or summer camp? Do you believe it is important for schools to require vaccinations like these to keep all students safe? Or do you think it should be up to individual families to decide?In “Los Angeles…
We Asked Teens What Life Was Like in a Pandemic. They Had a Lot...
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.Last fall, when The New York Times Learning Network invited teenagers across the United States to tell us what living in a pandemic was like, we didn’t expect so many answers — nor did we expect…
Teens on Coping With a Challenging Year
March 7, 2021The New York Times, through its Learning Network, asked the question, and more than 5,500 responses poured in.In words and images, audio and video, they reported that it was, in many ways, a generation-defining disaster. Being trapped inside — and missing the milestones that ordinarily mark coming of age in America — was…
Erasure Poetry At Home
The past year has been difficult for many people. The pandemic, the politics, the job loss and the isolation — most Americans have had to find some new coping mechanisms to make it through. Here’s one: erasure poetry.Creativity can be healing in difficult times, but it’s not always easy to tap into those creative juices.…
State Poets Laureate Deliver Brightness After Invitation From New York Times
In their Times pieces, the writers gave thanks for some phenomena specific to their states — “proximity to water, August at Narragansett Beach, / and lobster,” in Rhode Island, for instance. But there were also many common threads: gratitude for natural wonders, for neighbors, family and health care workers, for health itself.Pulling the project together…
