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Pulitzer Center Update
2015: A Year in Photos
The Pulitzer Center staff share favorite images from 2015.
December 23, 2015 -
Lesson Plans
Museum of Current Crises
This lesson plan outlines a project that allows students the opportunity to connect with a contemporary crisis somewhere in the world.
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Lesson Plans
Environmental Health: What is it?
This lesson draws from a range of projects on food waste, ocean health, global goods and extractives, food insecurity, water and sanitation and more to support student understanding around...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Broken Dreams: The Aftermath of 25 Years of Democracy in Bulgaria
Photographer Yana Paskova finds that for Bulgaria, democracy doesn't necessarily mean prosperity.
March 11, 2015 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Yana Paskova
My latest trip to my home until the age of 12, Bulgaria, coincided with the 25th anniversary of the...
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A look at the intended—and unintended effects—of democracy on Bulgaria, a nation still undergoing...
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/07-03-15/img_1460.jpg.webp?h=a5eb5da0&itok=kH1iJ4xn "Small-scale traders at traditional markets in Bucharest, Romania, say they are being "eaten alive" by the expansion of Lidl and other Western European supermarket chains. Image by Claire Provost. Romania, 2015.")
![](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/11-07-14/screen_shot_2014-11-07_at_4.26.59_pm.png.webp?h=a0ccd589&itok=2U96dCkH "Hello, this is NYC-based photojournalist @yanapaskova posting from Bulgaria, my homeland until the age of 12, where I’ve returned each year for a visit. Follow me this week as I bridge Bulgaria’s communist past with photos gleaned from family albums, to its current state of democracy 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (the anniversary being Nov. 9th.) The Communist party trained its youth early; membership was a requirement for every schoolboy and girl. None of my family members were communist by ideology, but abstaining from party activities pre-1989 meant heavy social stigma, marked dossiers, sharply diminished employment opportunities, and at worse, imprisonment. This is a picture from my elementary school years, showing my classmates and I (second from right) as “pionercheta," or pioneers, with red ties, and a younger "chavdarche" with a blue tie. The labels and tie colors signified the level of advancement through the children’s Communist Party.")