If You Got Married, Would You Want to Keep Your Last...
More men have started to question the automatic assumption that their wives will take their names. What should couples do about surnames when they get married?
What Students Are Saying About Coed Sports
Some teenagers said playing on a team with boys and girls had benefits for athletes on and off the court, but not all were convinced coed teams were fair — or fun.
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
What It’s Like to Be a Teenager Now: The Winners of...
Runners-UpAlyse Wicentowski, “Heart”Angel Zhao and Fiona Xing, “teenage homage”Bobby Goldyn, 14, “Lost Voices”Cassie Garrett, 14, “Kindness in the Pandemic”Dorothy Du, 16, “The Sound of Rain”Eliana Robin, 15, “Warning: The World is Crumbling”Eveleen Jiang, 17, “Out of Touch”Hailey Jones, 15, “Growing Up in 2021”Hiewon Ahn, “A Cutlery Awakening”Ilona Lebron, 18, “Painting Something New”James Kim, 17, “Life…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
Why the Future of Learning Starts with Building
Coding has always served two purposes: the intrinsic drive to build something, and the practical path to a lucrative career. Even the most passionate code aficionados don’t dream of variables or syntax — they want to make a website, a tool, a game. For years, the career upside was impossible to ignore. You could land a stable SWE job, bootstrap your own app, or join a buzzy…
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Word of the Day: shibboleth
This word has appeared in 4 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?
Over 97% of Devs Use this Tool & You Can Learn...
Knowing how to use AI for software development could be the most valuable asset that you bring to a workplace. A new survey from GitHub found that over 97% of developers use AI coding tools at work and in their personal lives. The survey defined AI coding tools as “any developer tools that use generative…
Lesson of the Day: ‘A Jane Austen Museum Wants to Discuss...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “A Jane Austen Museum Wants to Discuss Slavery. Will Her Fans Listen?” by Jenny GrossJane Austen’s House, a museum based in a home where the writer lived, is expanding its interpretation to include information…
How to Use Images From Your Phone to Search the Web
If you’re not sure how to describe what you want with keywords, use your camera or photo library to get those search results.
Try This Quiz on Books That Were Made Into Great Space...
Welcome to Great Adaptations, the Book Review’s regular multiple-choice quiz about books that have gone on to find new life as movies, television shows, theatrical productions, video games and more. This week’s challenge is focused on fiction and nonfiction works about space exploration that were adapted into popular films.Just tap or click your answers to…
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ROI of Learning: How to Convince Your Board to Invest
ROI (Return on Investment) quantifies the gains from a specific action or investment. Learning or training ROI measures the financial impact of learning and training initiatives. For instance, if your organisation invests $100 in your learning strategy and it leads to a $200 return, your learning ROI would be 200% (2:1). ROI can be used…
Student Contest Winner: From Field Labor to an Engineering Major
In high school, I joined this club called MESA, which is local to our area. We had engineering competitions once a year, building mousetrap cars and gliders. That was the only STEM program that we had in high school. Besides that, no. Just fixing things around the house and getting the Wi-Fi to work again.…
Lesson of the Day: ‘Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official...
Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until Sept. 1, 2021.Lesson OverviewFeatured Article: “Trump, in Taped Call, Pressured Georgia Official to ‘Find’ Votes to Overturn Election” by Michael D. Shear and Stephanie SaulThe results of the 2020 election are expected to be certified by Congress during a…
Coursera partners with UK government to provide free modern skills training...
Betty Vandenbosch, Chief Content Officer, Coursera Coinciding with International Women’s Day, we are thrilled to announce that Coursera has joined forces with the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and ten other partners to deliver a £20 million programme to improve girls’ access to education and employment in developing countries. The UK’s first education partnership of…
Can you learn how to be positive or resilient?
We all know someone who says: “I’m sorry, I’m like that!”, but is this totally true? The answer is, no, it is not true. We all have the ability to change if we set it as a goal to improve our quality of life and relationship with others. Because human beings are not something…








