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Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Sashaying Their Way Through Youth”As recently as the 1970s, dressing as another gender could lead to arrest. Today, L.G.B.T.Q. people are losing their rights and face violence in the United States and around the world. In spite of this, young people are pushing back against…

3. How does Lukaku deal with the racism he has encountered — both emotionally and as a player on the field?4. What factors are connected to the increase in racism at European soccer matches, according to the article?5. Why did Lukaku leave England after nearly eight years of play? Why did he feel that criticisms…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “How’s Your Internship Going? This Teen Found a Planet”Wolf Cukier, a teenager from Scarsdale, N.Y., spent the summer before his senior year interning at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. In his time interning, he identified a body that was later confirmed to…

Find all our Lessons of the Day here.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.” by Dana GoldsteinThe New York Times analyzed some of the most popular social studies textbooks used in California and Texas. They found hundreds of differences — including some that reflect the nation’s deepest partisan divides on issues like…

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…