Youth
There are now more people under the age of 25 in the world than ever before, presenting both opportunities for social progress and considerable challenges. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Youth” feature reporting on young people, the issues they face and the potential for change they represent. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on youth.
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Winners and Finalists: Local Letters for Global Change 2018
In fall 2018, we asked students to write a letter to their representative about a global issue they...
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This lesson explores how film is used to tell the stories of young ballerinas in Brazil’s favelas, resulting in art and/or research projects examining resilience.
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Jaime Joyce
Jaime Joyce is executive editor at TIME magazine's classroom news edition, TIME for Kids. With the...
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Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Andres Gonzalez
Moving between the poetic and the forensic, Andres Gonzalez closely examines the epidemic of mass...
![Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier, demonstrates how to use a weapon, at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family, in Marib, Yemen in this July 27, 2018 photo. Houthi rebels took Kahlan and his classmates, promising to give them new school bags, but instead they were enlisted and trained as fighters tasked with carrying supplies to the front lines. There, he had to elude explosions and airstrikes that left mangled casualties on the battlefield. "The sight of the bodies was…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/12-19-18/2000.png.webp?h=56d0ca2e&itok=ul_q4TvC "Kahlan, a 12-year-old former child soldier, demonstrates how to use a weapon, at a camp for displaced persons where he took shelter with his family, in Marib, Yemen in this July 27, 2018 photo. Houthi rebels took Kahlan and his classmates, promising to give them new school bags, but instead they were enlisted and trained as fighters tasked with carrying supplies to the front lines. There, he had to elude explosions and airstrikes that left mangled casualties on the battlefield. "The sight of the bodies was scary," he said. Image by Nariman El-Mofty / AP News. Yemen, 2018.")
![A pile of old textbooks at Utjane Primary School in Limpopo. Many rural schools lack libraries as well as other components of a "basic education." Image by Adam Yates. South Africa, 2018.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/09-23-18/dsc_0821.jpg.webp?h=c5703399&itok=eMrOBp0a "A pile of old textbooks at Utjane Primary School in Limpopo. Many rural schools lack libraries as well as other components of a "basic education." Image by Adam Yates. South Africa, 2018.")
