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India: Damming Sacred Rivers
In the Indian border state of Sikkim, indigenous Himalayan communities charted for hydroelectric dam construction fight to protect their sacred rivers.
Classroom Subjects
Social Studies
India: Grappling with the Legacy of 'The Population Bomb'
From the U.S. to India, alarm has long been raised about overpopulation, leading to calls for harsh measures to curb it. But is population control the answer?
Who Takes Care of Nanny's Children?
When a Filipino woman leaves her home to work overseas as a nanny, she knows that it will be years before she sees her own children again.
Promises, Promises: One Year After Rana Plaza
One year after the collapse of Rana Plaza many workers in Bangladesh still depend on garment-making—despite the low wages and high safety risk that come with the job.
Saudi Arabia's Shifting Islamic Landscape
Saudi Arabia's religious landscape is evolving, posing challenges to the ultraconservative version of Islam on which the kingdom was founded. What will that mean for its future governance?
The Gangs of Karachi
Karachi is the world’s most violent city, with about 2,000 murders in 2013 as a result of its virulent gang politics. The city’s gangsters are openly linked to Pakistan’s national parties.
Lake Tonle Sap: The Endangered Heart of Cambodia
For centuries, the flood pulse of this lake has fed a nation and nurtured incredible biodiversity. With a changing climate and scores of dams planned upstream on the Mekong, can it survive?
Education in Ecuador
Since the implementation of a new constitution in 2008, Ecuador has put more emphasis on the development of higher education. Yet the country's secondary schools are leaving many students unprepared.
Official Homophobia in Russia
With homophobic rhetoric now legitimized by federal law, being gay in Russia can be extremely dangerous.
Bishan: Reinventing China’s Emptying Countryside
As China rapidly urbanizes, many villages—and their distinct cultural heritage and folk traditions—disappear daily. Two urban Chinese artists go back to the land in search of meaning in modern China.
Atlas of Pentecostalism
An interactive visual guide to the world's most rapidly growing religious movement.
Belfast: A City Divided
It has been 15 years since the end of Northern Ireland's Troubles yet in Belfast, a city carved by "Peace Walls," the tension is still palpable.
December 29, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Jackie Spinner
Jackie Spinner spent three months in Morocco exploring the ways in which the country has become a moderate Islamic hub in the North Africa and to examine the contrast between image and reality.
December 20, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Gregory Scruggs
Gregory Scruggs, a U.S.-based journalist specializing in land and property rights, traveled to Antigua and Barbuda after Hurricane Irma. Watch to learn more.
November 07, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ana P. Santos
Journalist Ana P. Santos reports from Qatar on how zina laws that criminalize unmarried sex target low-skilled migrant women and send them to prison—along with their babies.
November 07, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ben Mauk
In the 1950s the Cold War forever changed the American southwest, as thousands of hopeful uranium prospectors took to the hills in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and beyond.
October 25, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Richard Bernstein
Journalist Richard Bernstein traveled to Taiwan and Thailand to report on the growing influence of China around the world and in Southeast Asia.
October 19, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Emily Codik
A little-known story of survival during the Holocaust.
April 17, 2017 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Elliott Woods
Bozeman, Montana-based journalist Elliott Woods reports on animal poaching and human rights abuses in the Central African Republic in 2016.
October 18, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Neil Brandvold
Photojournalist Neil Brandvold investigates the paralytic disease Konzo that has inflicted polio-life symptoms on thousands of the most impoverished people in Democratic Republic of Congo.
August 11, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Ben C. Solomon
Pulitzer Prize-winning filmmaker and video journalist for The New York Times, Ben C. Solomon, discusses his VR film, "The Fight for Falluja."
August 01, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalists: Allison Shelley and Ana P. Santos
Writer Ana P. Santos and documentary photographer Allison Shelley traveled to Denmark for their project "Au Pair Program: Cultural Exchange or Cheap Domestic Labor?"
June 30, 2016
Slow Journalism and the Out of Eden Walk Curriculum
Educators can use Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk as a teaching tool by exposing classrooms to the the project and having students design and implement a narrative walk of their own.
June 06, 2016 | Meet the Journalist
Meet The Journalists: Claire Provost and Matt Kennard
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard discuss their six-month exploration of the transfer of territory around the globe from the state to corporations for the past six months.
August 21, 2019 | All Grades
Back to School: Catching up with the World
At the start of the school year, students might want to discuss global issues that arose over the summer. This lesson is intended to spark discussion on current events and ways to keep up with them.
August 16, 2019 | Elementary
Finding a Common Thread: How People Around the World Get Their Food
Engage with the challenges and solutions that communities around the world are grappling with when trying to access vital food sources.
August 15, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats: China Begins the Next Genome Revolution
Will China’s decision to heavily invest in genome editing of crops payoff in the long run?
August 14, 2019 | All Grades
The 1619 Project: Curricular Materials
Reading guides, activities, and other resources to bring The 1619 Project into the classroom and beyond.
August 09, 2019 | Middle School, High School
Future of Food
This lesson introduces the question: Can we create a nutritious and affordable food system in a way that’s green and fair?
August 01, 2019 | Elementary
Finding a Common Thread: How Young People Spend Free Time Around the World
This activity aims to help students make connections with their counterparts around the world by exploring what young people in different countries do in their free time.
July 31, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on Conflict and Peacebuilding
Conflict—difficult to define, but keenly felt. Explore these stories about under-reported aspects of conflict and peacebuilding.
July 24, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on the Environment and Climate Change
Climate change—an issue that affects us all, no matter where we are in the world. This guide will help begin a conversation about today's under-reported stories surrounding our global crisis.
July 23, 2019 | All Grades
Examining the Economics and Human Toll of Declining Industry
Students explore factors that have led to the struggling dairy industry in the Midwest in order to understand the continual shifting of industrial businesses and how this affects their communities.
July 16, 2019 | All Grades
Toolkit for Your Next Discussion on Migration and Refugees
What stories do we see, and which ones do we miss? These stories go beyond the headlines to explore under-reported stories on migration and refugees in the United States and around the world.
July 03, 2019 | Middle School, High School
The Ethics of Voluntourism and the Purpose of Travel
Students read solutions journalism that explains the problems with volunteer travel and offers positive alternatives in order to develop their own opinion pieces on the purpose and ethics of travel.
May 22, 2019 | Elementary, Middle School, High School
Challenges and Support for Children with Incarcerated Parents
Students read and discuss stories featuring children with an incarcerated parent, then take action to find solutions to some of the challenges these children face.