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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Beth Gardiner
After years of ignoring the deadly problem, China's leaders are finally starting to take air...
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This group of lessons explores the interplay between religion and power. Students evaluate the degree to which religious forces impact the strength of a country's democratic institutions.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Female Journalists Featured on @PulitzerCenter Instagram for Gender Lens Conference
For a week, the Pulitzer Center will be featuring photography by female journalists around the world...
May 18, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Private Security for the Rich
Protecting the Rich Claire Provost In a trend that highlights the growing global gap between rich...
May 16, 2017
![The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-16-17/beichuan_blog_-1.jpg.webp?h=c6980913&itok=9zCRl5Yx "The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by Sim Chi Yin/VII Photo Agency. China, 2015.")
