Learning Network: The Week 10 winners of our Summer Reading Contest
Phones and childhood
The Learning Network
August 27, 2025

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS AND STUDENTS

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César Debargue

Ask a Journalist: A Monthly Series for Teenagers

Join us each month this school year to discuss a teen-friendly topic with a New York Times journalist who covers it. Post your thoughts, ask questions or suggest ideas, and the reporters will reply!

By The Learning Network

Six images including a group of protestors, a display of Labubu toys, children holding empty bowls, a flooded river, a photo of Elmo displayed in a Congressional meeting and a group of men holding a trophy.

Clockwise from top left: Philip Cheung for The New York Times; Visual China Group, via Getty Images; Saher Alghorra for The New York Times; Justin Ford / Getty Images; Anna Rose Layden for The New York Times; Carter Johnston for The New York Times

Summer 2025 News Quiz for Students

How closely have you paid attention to current events? See what you remember by taking our special Summer 2025 News Quiz.

Compiled by Jeremy Engle

Six photos, including of a child break dancing, a child in a barber's chair, two girls wrestling, a child playing cards, a child in a karate uniform and a group of Boy Scouts.

Clockwise from top left: Gauri Gupta; Serene Hameed; Marcus Albuquerque; Martina Sirvent Suarez; Miu Nakano; Max Chung

Contests

Our 2025-26 Student Contest Calendar

Eight challenges that invite teenagers to engage, experiment, reflect and create — via writing, photography, audio, video and more.

By The Learning Network

A comic with nine panels. The first panel is of a composition book. The other eight panels show a person trying to write in the book.

Grant Snider

Writing Curriculum

Teach Writing With The New York Times: Our 2025-26 Curriculum

Our eight writing units are based on real-world features like reviews, opinion essays, narratives, podcasts, photo essays and more.

By The Learning Network

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VOCABULARY RESOURCES

An illustration of a student saying the word "furtive."

Word of the day

Word of the Day: furtive

This word has appeared in 34 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

By The Learning Network

An illustration of a teacher saying the word "kindling."

Word of the day

Word of the Day: kindling

This word has appeared in 36 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

By The Learning Network

An illustration of a student saying the word "mangrove."

Word of the day

Word of the Day: mangrove

This word has appeared in 23 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence?

By The Learning Network

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