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Teach and learn with The Times: Resources for bringing the world into your classroom
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CreditJahmese Jones Dunbar ContestsWhat High School Is Like in 2023: A Multimedia Challenge for Teachers and Teens
What can you show or tell us to help explain what it’s like to be an educator or student in secondary school right now? Submit in words, images, audio or video, from Aug. 16-Oct. 4.
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CreditKenny Holston/The New York Times; Angela Weiss/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images; Daniel Brenner for The New York Times Student News QuizSummer 2023 News Quiz for Students
How closely have you paid attention to current events? See what you remember by taking our special Summer 2023 News Quiz.
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CreditThe Learning Network Mentor TextsEight Videos With Writing Advice for Teens, From Teens
Past winners of our student contests share their best writing moves.
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CreditAmr Alfiky Five practical steps for deciding what you most want to express, and experimenting with how to express it.
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CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times 15 Questions About Your Life in School: A Special Forum for Students and Teachers
To go along with our new challenge, we’re inviting anyone who works in a secondary school or is a student in one to respond.
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CreditBrian Rea ‘I Struggled to Understand the Concept of Love’: The Week 10 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
As our contest comes to a close, we honor Ruby Nguyen, 18, and hear from some of our New York Times judges about what it was like to read responses from teenagers around the world.
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CreditGrant Snider Teach Writing With The New York Times: Our 2023-24 Curriculum
Our eight writing units, each with its own practical step-by-step guide, are based on real-world features like reviews, photo essays, narratives, podcasts and more.
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CreditFrom left to right, Shashank Salgam, Allyson Kim and Gigi Greene Our 2023-24 Student Contest Calendar
Here are 10 challenges to help us celebrate our 25th anniversary — including one open to both teachers and teenagers.
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CreditAndrea Chronopoulos 144 Picture Prompts to Inspire Student Writing
A school year’s worth of short, accessible image-driven posts that invite a variety of kinds of writing.
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In this lesson, students will learn how the U.S. government creates the money we spend. Then, they will design their own currency.
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: raucous
This word has appeared in 323 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: disingenuous
This word has appeared in 87 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: putative
This word has appeared in 49 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: anthropomorphize
This word has appeared in 13 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: unseemly
This word has appeared in 44 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: scabrous
This word has appeared in 10 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: paterfamilias
This word has appeared in eight articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: iteration
This word has appeared in 293 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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Contests‘My Ancestors Speak to Me’: The Week 9 Winner of Our Summer Reading Contest
Ming-Li Sabina Wolfe, 16, writes about how the music of Astrud Gilberto, who died in June, has connected her family through the generations.
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Word of the dayWord of the Day: kaleidoscopic
This word has appeared in 74 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
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