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Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “100 Years Ago, the Booziest January Suddenly Dried Up” One hundred years ago, Prohibition began — outlawing the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcohol in the United States for more than a decade.In this lesson, you will learn about how Americans prepared for and adjusted…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Dogs Can’t Help Falling in Love” by James Gorman.Clive Wynne, a psychologist specializing in dog behavior, contends that what makes your furry friend special is not its intellect but its ability to bond with you. In fact, dogs’ ability to bond across species — with…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewDo you speak or study another language? Is it easy to find books, dictionaries or videos in that language? In the article “Just 700 Speak This Language (50 in the Same Brooklyn Building),” the New York Times writer Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura documents a language that originates from…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “The City That Cycles With the Young, the Old, the Busy and the Dead” Nearly half of all journeys to school and work in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, take place on bicycles. And people like it that way.In this lesson, you will learn how…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewIn “Chinese Restaurants Are Closing. That’s a Good Thing, the Owners Say.” Amelia Nierenberg and Quoctrung Bui look at the connection between the decline in Chinese restaurants across America and the economic mobility of the second generation. In this lesson, you will consider businesses that make up…

4. How is A.I. changing the test preparation market, a multibillion-dollar global industry?5. Why does the author believe that “the world will still need schools, classrooms and teachers” in the future? What will teachers still be needed for even in our A.I.-enhanced future?6. Why do some people, like Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, believe that the challenge…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Nature’s Best Poetry of 2019: Clouds” by Josephine SedgwickEvery day, members of the Cloud Appreciation Society post photos of the sky from around the world. The article explores why they stop to look up.In this lesson, you will take some time to free your mind…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Trump Impeached for Abuse of Power and Obstruction of Congress” by Nicholas Fandos and Michael D. Shear.President Trump became the third president in the history of the United States to be impeached.In this lesson, students will learn more about the historic vote in the House…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Among the World’s Most Dire Places: This California Homeless Camp” by Thomas Fuller and Josh Haner Two New York Times journalists spent three months in an encampment created by and for homeless people living in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this lesson you will…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewIn “Netflix Is Ad Free, but It Isn’t Brand Free,” Tiffany Hsu looks at Netflix’s evolving relationship to advertising, product placement and brands. After you read the article, we ask you to use media literacy skills to analyze product placement in a TV show.Warm UpPart I: JournalHow…