Explore the World With These 100 Country Quizzes
Expand your knowledge of geography and culture with our short “Country of the Week” quizzes, all based on reporting, photos and videos from The New York Times.
How much do you know about Cape Verde? What about Colombia, Bangladesh or Montenegro?
Since 2017, the Learning Network has been publishing a five-question “Country of the Week” quiz based on The New York Times’s travel coverage, news reporting and photojournalism to help build students’ geography skills.
Each Monday morning during the school year we release a new quiz, and this month we published our 100th one. To mark the milestone, we organized all the quizzes we’ve published so far by continent below. But by no means are we finished; for example, look for our Egypt quiz next week, and for Greece the week after that.
What Students Are Saying About the Riot at the U.S. Capitol
We invited teenagers to share what they were feeling, noticing and wondering about the shocking and chaotic events as they unfolded. Here is what they had to say.
Protesters exit the Capitol after facing off with police in the Rotunda in Washington, D.C. after listening to a speech by President Trump on January 6, 2021. Related article | Related Student Opinion
Credit.Ashley Gilbertson/VII, for The New York Times
By The Learning Network
Please note: This post is part of The Learning Network’s ongoing and publish a selection of their comments each week.
â2020 Has Been a Wake-Up Callâ: Reflections on Our Civil Conversation Challenge
Teenagers posted over 12,000 comments in response to our invitation to talk about politics across divides. We loved the results.
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Please note: As this piece publishes â and as the United States heads toward the inauguration of a new president even as the current president is Though that forum focused on individual response rather than conversation, many of the positive qualities we identify below are on display there as well. Thank you, students, for raising your voices.
This fall we invited teenagers to come to our site and, via the comments section, have productive and respectful conversations about some of the hot-button issues of the 2020 election.
Teaching Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the Rampage at the Capitol
Dozens of lesson plan ideas, activities and Times materials for exploring the causes and consequences of this assault on democracy in the United States.
Pro-Trump extremists overruning the Senate chamber. Hundreds of protesters roamed the halls of the Capitol on Jan.6, taking photos and breaking into offices. Related ArticleCredit.Win McNamee/Getty Images
By The Learning Network
Published Jan. 7, 2021Updated Jan. 15, 2021
Not since the War of 1812, when British forces set fire to the Capitol, have the halls of power in Washington been overtaken by violent intruders as they were on Jan. 6, writes The Times.
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