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NY Times Education Resources

The NYT inEducation and The Learning Network are resources to help educators and students make the most of NYT digital content by connecting what's happening in the news to their studies. Influential educators from around the world curate content to provide recommended articles, commentaries, real life teaching applications, prompts, and questions to guide classroom discussion.

NYT inEducation

New York Times inEducation connects NYT journalism with key areas of study by providing questions for discussion and analysis as well as general instructional strategies.

Subject Discipline Areas:

Subject discipline areas focus on the following learning outcomes: 

  • Critical Thinking
  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Oral and Written Communication

The Learning Network

The Learning Network is the New York Times’s award-winning curricular tool offering activities for students and resources for teachers by providing dynamic content and activities. While geared towards an audience of native English-speaking high schoolers, the lessons, prompts, and activities can fuel critical thinking at different levels and are used by colleges and professors all over the world. Over 1,000 materials published each year keep materials relevant.

The Learning Network Features:

  • Activites
  • Lesson plans
  • Prompts
  • Quizzes
  • Student opinion questions
  • Webinars
  • Writing curriculum

How to use NYT Educational Resources

Additional ways to use NYT in your classroom:

  • Assign a podcast and have a class discussion on the topic
  • Encourage students to subscribe to a relevant newsletter
  • Encourage attendance at a virtual event