Our Weekly Current News Conversation has returned. To kick off the new academic year we surveyed teenagers: What achievements are you most happy about? What is the distinction between achievement and achievement? in the essay of guest contributors ” What We Lose When We Push Our Kids to ‘Achieve,’” Adam Gopnik explains: It is the achievement…
Category: Event
Floods in Libya
A torrential downpour that hit the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend caused two dams to break close to Derna, which is a city along the coast located in Libya. North African nation of Libya that killed thousands and washed entire villages out into the sea. A minimum of 10,000 were believed to be missing, and…
Weekly Student News Quiz Iran, Manhunt, Auto Strike
Above is a picture that is related to one of our stories that we read about this week. Are you aware of what it is? On the last page of this test, you’ll find the solution. First, we have 10 questions on the events of September. 12-18 2023. How many of them can you accurately…
What Does Hip-Hop Mean to You
It’s the anniversary marking 50 years since hip hop’s beginning will be celebrated in the coming year. What artists, songs, moments and lyrics from the early five decades stick out for you? DJ Kool Herc threw a back-to-school celebration on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx and mingled two records to create a continuous breakbeat….
Ways to Teach and Learn About Hip-Hop
This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop’s birth. To mark the occasion the occasion, we invite students to investigate its extraordinary rise, its transformation of the world’s cultural landscape and its lasting legacy as well as the direction it will take in the coming years. In the past five decades, hip-hop has transformed from…
What Students Are Saying About the End of Race-Based Affirmative Action in College Admissions
Teenagers from all over the country are weighing in on the Supreme Court’s June decision. In June, the Supreme Court’s ruling to deny admissions based on race in colleges and universities across the country shook up years of law and the landscape of higher education. This ruling will change the structure of a number of…
Kengo Kuma on Bringing the ‘Spirit of Zen’ to Vancouver’s Skyline
The architect, who is engaged in his very first North American residential project, has created a design practice that blends culture and nature. From the Tokyo Starbucks of wooden sticks to Japan’s “green” 2020 Olympics stadium, Kengo Kuma has built an international design practice that blends culture and nature in stunning ways. There are offices…
These small, budget-friendly German hearing aids are a roaring success
Doctor. Marco Vietor, founder of hear.com, invited Piyush Jain to be the director of hear.com India to make hearing aids accessible and affordable to everyone in India. Piyush was aware that hearing aids would change lives in India just as they did in the past. A design almost invisible, hidden behind or in the…
However, it could be a positive thing, according to experts
Hot, brutal, cruel, angry -words that are associated with anger aren’t exactly appealing. “Anger is a particular type of an emotional state that can receive a lot of judgment from ourselves and from other people,” said Dr. Brett Ford, associate professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. It could be a painful feeling to…
The work and mission of the UN is more important than ever
UN Photos/Cia Pak Transforming Education Summit was convened at the UN Headquarters in New York in 2022. In a world battling ever-more complex crises, ranging from inequality and poverty to the global climate crisis and the climate crisis, the United Nations remains at the forefront of global responses and is determined to guide mankind on…









