How The New York Times for Kids Explains the Capitol Attack
Grappling with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is hard enough for adults. How do you help children make sense of it? Two articles appearing this weekend in The New York Times for Kids, a section that runs the last Sunday of every month as part of the print newspaper, tackle that challenge. The…
On a Vital Team of Editors, 2 Interns Learn Valuable Lessons
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.The first questions we were asked as interns at The New York Times were usually: “What do you do there? Where can I see your work?”Well, that’s a bit tricky because we worked on the Flex…
Teaching With The New York Times: A Virtual Summit
Journalism helps us navigate a complex world, shines a light on the truth, and provides analysis, insight and context to the most pressing issues of our day. In this summit for educators and librarians, The New York Times Education and Library Subscription Program brings you a series of discussions featuring Times journalists, leaders in education,…
How Four Years Shaped Girls’ Political Views
Despite those findings, the young women I interviewed all had high aspirations — they wanted to become a novelist, an animal scientist and a basketball player. One, Ana Shepherd, 18, had decided to pursue politics as a direct result of what she saw the last four years. She was born in Mexico and felt she…
Lesson of the Day: ‘In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics’
5. How and why are scientists making their own marine snow? What questions do they hope to answer?6. The article concludes:Scientists are still exploring exactly how this plastic snow is sinking, but they do know for sure, Dr. Porter said, that “everything eventually sinks in the ocean.” Vampire squids will live and die and eventually…
Journalist Moms on Their Parenting Super Powers
Never missing a beatMy super power is teaching my baby to get into the groove. The latest adorable video clip of my 10-month-old that’s making the rounds among friends and family shows her rocking out to the cartoonish ’80s hit “Walk the Dinosaur” by the band Was (Not Was). Though she can’t yet walk, the…
What Would You Like to Ask Your 40-Year-Old Self?
If you could go decades ahead in time and ask your 40-year-old self some questions, what would you ask? Why? Be as specific as you can. What questions would you have about how your life turned out? About the lives of loved ones? About local, national and world events? Inventions? Arts and culture?We pose this…
Experts on Deaf Culture Help Times Explain Name Signing
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together.How does a person get a name sign — the series of unique gestures used to identify someone in American Sign Language? For a team of Times journalists, the process of answering that question underscored the…
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…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Why Do We Yawn?’
In this lesson, you will learn about what happens in our bodies when we yawn and investigate the question of whether yawning is contagious.
