Teenagers in The Times: May 2020

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Teenagers in The Times: May 2020

Here is the May 2020 edition of Teenagers in The Times, the last of the 2019-2020 school year. This roundup of news and feature stories about young people that have recently appeared across sections of NYTimes.com appears on the first Thursday of each month from September until June.

Within these monthly lists, we hope students find articles that capture their imagination and show them what is happening among people in their age group around the world. For the summer months, however, we offer students the opportunity to find and tell us what interested them the most in The Times each week. Our 11th Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest runs from June 12 until Aug. 21, 2020.

For ideas about how to use Teenagers in The Times with your students, please see our lesson plan and special activity sheet, both of which can be used with this or any other edition.

This Brooklyn High School Found a Way to Honor Its Graduating Seniors

With almost all Class of 2020 ceremonies canceled, high schools like James Madison have devised creative methods to celebrate their departing students.

Why I’m Learning More With Distance Learning Than I Do in School

This Opinion essay author writes, “I’m 13 years old. I don’t miss the other kids who talk out of turn, disrespect teachers and hit one another.”

The Class Divide: Remote Learning at 2 Schools, Private and Public

Some private schools provide online luxury learning. As many public schools struggle to adjust, educational gaps are widening.

As Students Put Off College, Anxious Universities Tap Wait Lists

Uncertain that campuses will reopen, students are reluctant to commit for the fall. For schools, enrollment drops and lost revenue could be devastating.

A Pandemic Isn’t a Reason to Abolish the SAT

“For now, the SAT and ACT are more democratic than many of the other metrics used to evaluate college applicants,” argues the writer of this Opinion essay.

The Return to School

What Australian children have to say about going back to class

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Civics, Politics, Economics and Business

Gymnasts Push for Lasting Change After a Coach Is Suspended for Abuse

When Maggie Haney, the prominent coach of an Olympian, was barred for eight years after being accused of emotional abuse, gymnasts saw an opening to press for other cases to go forward and to demand broader change.

Regan Smith: No Swimming, No Olympics, No Graduation. No Complaints.

Smith, 18, set two world records last summer and seemed primed for the Tokyo Games. When they were postponed, she focused on what she could do rather than what she couldn’t.

The Gymnast Who Hasn’t Turned Off Her Olympic Countdown

Sunisa Lee, 17, had stellar showings at the national and world championships, and her sights on making the U.S. women’s Olympic team. Those plans are now up in the air.