A collection of free websites to assist those taking part in our multimedia challenge “What High School
Erica Robson, center, a drama teacher, directs students during a rehearsal for “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in Los Angeles. Related Article Credit…Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times
The stories about education have been the most talked about this year, as a quick look through this lengthy and long list will reveal.
If you’re taking part in this latest multimedia competition, which asks students and teachers to “show or tell us what high school is like in 2023,” we believe it would be helpful to know the process. The New York Times and other media outlets have viewed the questions and concerns concerning secondary education.
Below are more than 75 feature, news, and opinion pieces on education, school, and learning, as well as teenage life, which have appeared on different pages on NYTimes.com over the past year. They are completely free to read, just like all Times articles that are linked from The Learning Network — provided you connect to our site. We will keep updating our collection up until contest closes in October. 4.
What should you do to begin? We suggest the fantastic piece written by teens “What Grown-Ups Don’t Understand About School,” which was published in September 2022.
And, as you browse through the other pages, you could choose pieces on subjects that are of particular interest to you and think about …
What appears to be missing? Do you have any information or context which could make this work more effective?
What can my experience or knowledge help give me authority on this subject? What do I wish to share about it?
What other stories from my school experience do these fragments remind me of that I can share
Related Special 2022 Section Credit…Illustration by Chloe Scheffe; photographs by Internet Archive; Lan Gao, via Unsplash, and PediaPress and Mikus, via Wikimedia Commons
What Grown-Ups Don’t Understand About School
In the month of September 2022, The New York Times Opinion section asked a group of experts to answer the question: What does school really serve? Our top choice was This one from the students of Fremont High in Oakland.
How do you best learn? Does your school encourage the methods you use to learn?
Your Identity and School
What does the person you are influence your learning and the experience you have at school generally?