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Browse the Educators’ Catalog Database below to find articles and classroom activities that focus on a range of topics, geographies and learning outcomes. Scroll to the left to see the complete menu of options. You can also view the database in Google Sheets.
Excerpts from the most recent Educators’ Catalog:
Trading in bullets for ballots in Sri Lanka
After failed attempts to topple the Sri Lankan government, a rebel group has come to power through peaceful means, with the help of a youth movement.
How floods in Spain brought a deluge of disinformation
After massive floods in Valencia, fake news messages on the internet seemed targeted to intensify chaos and undermine trust in the authorities.
Decoder Replay: Why do people believe conspiracy theories?
Trump faked his assassination attempt. Princess Di wasn’t killed in an accident. The moon landing never happened. Why do people believe disproven ideas?
Decoder Replay: Beware of shorthand labels
Are the Houthis in Yemen “Iran-backed” or “Iran-aligned”? Are Hezbollah members “terrorists” or “liberators”? Labels can make a big difference.
Decoders
Our “Decoders” go beyond headlines to provide context for the big issues in the news. ND correspondents bring decades of journalistic expertise reporting on major world events to write exclusive news articles in English for our youth audience. Student reporters are trained in our Pitch, Report, Draft, Revise methodology to produce balanced, credible and authoritative news content.
Every article includes a list of questions to prompt discussion. Browse a selection of our news archive by categories below, or search by keywords on your desired topic or region in the Search box.
Israel-Palestine
Promoting peace through a prize
Each year a committee of Norwegians awards the Nobel Peace Prize to someone who has fought for peace. Is Donald Trump worthy?
Decoder Replay: When nations go too far
Even warfare has rules. But how can the world stop the mass slaughter and starvation of a people?
School closed on account of … war
Some 90 million students across the globe lose their access to education, not from snow or hurricanes, but from the political storms that rage around them.
Decoder Replay: Is peace in the Middle East even possible?
It is difficult to undo almost eight decades of hostility. To understand what’s happening now in Gaza you have to go back to the creation of the Israeli state.
Decoder Replay: Do the Geneva Conventions still have force?
Israel strikes crowds at food distribution sites. Russia bombs cities in the Ukraine war. Can we not hold nations to account?
Ukraine
The power of one voice
When a Russian pop star told the world, and Putin, that the Ukraine war must end, she had to go into exile. But her message was already out.
School closed on account of … war
Some 90 million students across the globe lose their access to education, not from snow or hurricanes, but from the political storms that rage around them.
Decoder Replay: Do the Geneva Conventions still have force?
Israel strikes crowds at food distribution sites. Russia bombs cities in the Ukraine war. Can we not hold nations to account?
Decoder: Do fixed borders guarantee peace?
While Russia and Ukraine war over their shared border, two Central Asian nations prove that borders can be changed by mutual agreement.
Decoder: From a cold war to a warm hug
How to get the significance of Donald Trump’s bitterness towards Europe? You have to look at the complicated dance between Russia and the United States.
Technology
Decoder: Does ‘less is more’ apply to tech companies?
How vulnerable are we as a society when our internet-delivery eggs are largely placed in one virtual global basket?
For World Space Week it’s time to look up
There are no national borders in outer space. On earth, astrophysicists work together across borders. Come explore space with us.
Before you click on that incredible deal…
Don’t trust internet offers that seem too good to be true. But how can you tell if its the real deal? We’ll show you some ways.
Designed in California but made … all over the world
Many people in the United States feel they can’t live without an iPhone. But its global components have put it is at the heart of an international trade battle.
With no warning
As the planet heats up and extreme weather events get more common, the United States slashes funding to its weather services. What does that mean for the world?
Economy
Decoder: Does ‘less is more’ apply to tech companies?
How vulnerable are we as a society when our internet-delivery eggs are largely placed in one virtual global basket?
Decoder Replay: Why do people worry about inflation?
Think of inflation the way you think of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: too much or too little is a problem. Just a bit can be just right.
Decoder Replay: Can the world wean itself off petroleum?
The world seems to have reached a turning point in replacing carbon polluting fuels with clean, renewable energy.
Decoder Replay: Why all the fuss over interest rates?
When the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank lowers interest rates, that can affect the prices for all the stuff you buy. But do you understand how they work?
Decoder Replay: Gold is valuable. But you can’t drink it.
We’re marking World Water Week, a gathering in Sweden intended to solve water-related challenges such as droughts, floods and food security. Let’s invest in it.
Environment
When young girls pay the cost of climate change
After devasting floods in Pakistan, desperate parents are marrying off their daughters. In extreme circumstances, child marriage becomes a means of survival.
Decoder Replay: Can the world wean itself off petroleum?
The world seems to have reached a turning point in replacing carbon polluting fuels with clean, renewable energy.
Saying goodbye to our glaciers
Glaciers predate human life but our lifestyle causes them to melt. Can a funeral for a glacier get this message across? Let’s do something before it’s too late.
Decoder Replay: Gold is valuable. But you can’t drink it.
We’re marking World Water Week, a gathering in Sweden intended to solve water-related challenges such as droughts, floods and food security. Let’s invest in it.
Is climate change carcinogenic?
Increasingly, researchers are finding a causal connection between cancer and extreme weather events and other manifestations of climate change.
Health & Wellness
Decoder: Does ‘less is more’ apply to tech companies?
How vulnerable are we as a society when our internet-delivery eggs are largely placed in one virtual global basket?
Can you get better medical advice online than from a doctor?
When it takes too long to get an appointment or a doctor dismisses patient symptoms, people go online for help. Is that a bad thing?
Decoder Replay: Why do people worry about inflation?
Think of inflation the way you think of Goldilocks and the Three Bears: too much or too little is a problem. Just a bit can be just right.
Food: The one thing everyone needs
On World Food Day we present you with a smorgasbord of stories to consume to show how food and the need to eat connects us all.
Decoder Replay: Can the world wean itself off petroleum?
The world seems to have reached a turning point in replacing carbon polluting fuels with clean, renewable energy.
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