Access to quality education has a tremendous impact on the lives of people around the world, leading to positive outcomes in economic success and health. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Education” feature reporting that covers how education is used to improve standards of living, increase economic opportunity, and build a global middle class. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on education.
The so-called “Swedish model” of banning the purchase but not the sale of sex is catching on in Europe. But does it work? And for whom?
Although the school lunch program can foster tolerance, discrimination against lower castes persists in rural India.
A trillion dollars worth of heavy crude has attracted the world's oil titans to western Canada. The impact is colossal.
The challenges of population growth, environmental degradation, food security, and even violent extremism can be traced back to issues with girls’ health, education and human rights.
The third and final broadcast in PRI's The World series on India’s Midday Meal, the program that feeds 120 million poor and malnourished children.
In India, education and the free school-lunch program help foster an environment of tolerance.
On July 16, 2013, the death by pesticide of 23 Indian schoolchildren exposed the tragic shortcomings of India's program of free school lunches. No one disputes that the program itself is essential.
The teacher at the Koranic school described the young woman as “calm and obedient,” ideal marriage material. Samira Abdoulaye, 19, did not return the sentiment.
Children in the DRC who have lost families, homes and schools prove to be remarkably resilient. Photographs, videos, and in-depth profiles bring their stories alive.
An army of 2.3 million health workers, most of them women, have helped to virtually eradicate polio in India.
Listen to Indian American perspectives on the 2014 general elections—the largest democratic exercise in human history.
The closing of one girls' school has kept a whole generation of girls in a rural Pakistani village from getting the education their sisters and mothers got.
On June 19, the Pulitzer Center's D.C. education program participates in the "Do More 24" online giving campaign. Please support our work!
The 21 Pulitzer Center student fellows from our Campus Consortium partners this year will report on a range of complex issues from around the world—from public health to the environment.
Watch award-winning documentary focused on one version of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: floating schools.
The 1,000-day period from the beginning of pregnancy to a child’s second birthday influences an individual’s ability to grow, learn, and work.
Pulitzer Center project combines data visualization and the work of journalists around the world to show the public health impact of traffic fatalities
Great photography is a Pulitzer Center hallmark and so is reporting of depth and insight, sometimes on stories in the news and sometimes on issues that should be.
"Easy Like Water," a film that documents one man's mission to help Bangladesh's schools adapt to climate change, attracts notice from television broadcasts.
The Pulitzer Center staff shares favorite images from 2013.
“She went back to her village and decided to live as if nothing had happened. Four years later, she was married. She said her husband didn't know anything about her past."
Day of the Girl, on October 11, is calling attention to girls' education this year. What does education for girls look like where you live? Share a photo, video or comment with #girlsglobaled!
Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley explains the "Roads Kill" project and it's interactive map.
We know that carbon dioxide emissions are affecting the planet’s climate. Now it appears that these carbon emissions are also altering the chemistry of our oceans.
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