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Welcome to the seventh week of our 11th Annual Summer Reading Contest!This contest is open to students 13-19 from anywhere in the world. To...

WinnerMarcella Rodio, 16, from River Dell High School in Oradell, New Jersey chose an article headlined “Many Latinos Couldn’t Stay Home. Now Virus Cases...

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Our 11th Annual Summer Reading Contest enters its fifth week!This contest is open to students 13-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate, submit...

We’ve been publishing our Picture Prompts series four days a week since 2016. These short, accessible, image-driven prompts invite students to create short stories,...

In one survey, 62 percent of educators and administrators reported that they were somewhat or very concerned about returning to school while the coronavirus...

WinnerZachary Hommel, 17, from Cornwall Central High School in New Windsor, N.Y. chose the obituary, “Vincent Lionti, Violist and Youth Orchestra Conductor, Dies at...

Chandini chose the article “NASA Names Headquarters After Its First Black Female Engineer, Mary Jackson”, which expounded on the remarkable career of an aeronautical...

The United States is one of the most unequal countries in the developed world. People who aren’t wealthy have less chance of success and...

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens...

“The Dangers of the Internet for Two Teenage Girls” by Sanaz Zaman, 13, and Hong Yeju, 13, UCSI International School, Selangor, Malaysia“The Fear of...

Every school day we choose an important or interesting Times article to feature in our Lesson of the Day and pair it with a...

“Black trans lives matter!” “Black trans lives matter!” “Black trans lives matter!” “So let me tell you something: Voguing has always been a protest....

WinnerUla Ekmecic, 16, from Roosevelt High School in Seattle chose an Opinion essay headlined “I’m a Black American. I Had to Get Out” and...

Thumbing through old photographs is a reliable way of evoking nostalgia. And these black-and-white Independence Day photographs, pulled from The New York Times’s archive,...

I DREAM OF A JOURNEYWritten and illustrated by Akiko Miyakoshi.A plaque, next to rows of glimmering keys, reads “Solitude Hotel.” It is late in...

At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with travel restrictions in place worldwide, we launched a new series — The World Through a Lens...

This week, we are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up in the middle school and high school categories of our Seventh...

Welcome to Week Two of our 11th Annual Summer Reading Contest.This contest is open to students 13-19 from anywhere in the world. To participate,...

Two Words: Free LaborHousework can also become a form of play, and depending on how well or poorly your children do it, may be...

Instead, the coronavirus-fueled bias against Asian-Americans is symptomatic of a wider phenomenon: American society has always regarded Asian-Americans as “non-American.”Many Americans, of all stripes,...

Since the start of this century, the popularity of all traditional classical music platforms has been plummeting. The percentage of adults attending classical music...

When I displayed my more modest personal bookshelf, featuring shiny-foiled fantasy and colorful young adult novels, he bemoaned, “My dad won’t let me read...

But can our bid to save the turtles simply be validated by the aftertaste of soggy cardboard?Unfortunately, the solace that we find in using...

This week, we are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up in the high school and middle school categories of our Seventh...

This week, we are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up in the high school and middle school categories of our Seventh...

This week, we are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up in the high school and middle school categories of our Seventh...

This week, we are publishing the work of all the winners and runners-up in the high school and middle school categories of our Seventh...

The book, “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows,” discusses carnism, the belief system that allows people to eat certain animals over...

A study published in the journal “Science” showed what people would do when they were by themselves for six to 15 minutes and given...