It is one thing for students to read what a teacher assigned. It’s another to discover information themselves and use it to inform others and take action. Educators work together in an EYES teacher training workshop in Brussels, Belgium, October 2025. (Photo by...
E-cars, autism, climate change, racial discrimination, a religious cult. These were subjects students tackled in the 18th News Decoder Storytelling Competition. A trophy and the News Decoder logo. (Illustration by News Decoder) A story about pollution caused when...
In our latest Decoder Dialogue we sat down with young people to hear their thoughts about speaking out. Why aren’t more people listening to what they say? Video of the Decoder Dialogue on speaking out shows a woman at a microphone. (Illustration by News Decoder)...
Despair sets in when we think a problem is too overwhelming to solve. But difficult isn’t the same as impossible. A group of teens work on a problem together. (Illustration by News Decoder) Doesn’t it seem as if the world gets more complicated every day? It is...
At the University of Toronto, people with specialized information become journalists and work with News Decoder to inform teens hungry for good information. A map connects Toronto to Paris. (Credit: Google Maps Image/News Decoder) Preety Sharma is a public health and...
Through storytelling, we challenge students to discover their connections to the world around them and to each other, whether across town or across countries. News Decoder founder Nelson Graves talks with a group of students from Westover School in the U.S. state of...
Young people struggle to make sense of world events. That’s where our correspondents come in. Experienced journalists and teens learning from each other. A collage of News Decoder correspondents. A decade ago, Nelson Graves launched a crowdfunding campaign to...
With News Decoder, young people not only question what is going on around them, they discover they’ve got peers across the globe asking similar questions. A selection of News Decoder student story headlines and the questions they ask. (Illustration by News...
Over 10 years, News Decoder has told students that their voices are worthy of being heard. Our contests tell them this: Don’t fear the judgement of others. A panel of contest judges. (Illustration by News Decoder) In November 2019, a high school student at...
News Decoder gives young people the platform to tell the world what they see and hear around them. In the process, we all learn how much we have in common. Three teens in a high school. (Illustration by News Decoder) When I hear or see something I think is wrong I...