How to Use The Learning Network

Welcome to a new school year! We’ll publish new daily writing prompts starting on Sept. 5. All our features will be back beginning Sept. 11, 2023.

Welcome to The Learning Network, a free resource that has been bringing the world into classrooms for 25 years. Via features like writing prompts, contests, discussion forums and lesson plans, the site provides fresh opportunities daily for teenagers to both learn more about what’s happening in the news and raise their voices in response to it.

Here are four quick facts about our site:

• The Learning Network publishes hundreds of teaching resources each school year. These resources all use content from The New York Times — articles, essays, images, videos, graphics and podcasts — as teaching tools across subject areas.

• Our regular daily and weekly features run from September through May, with special resources published throughout the summer.

• Our intended audience is middle and high school teachers and students (age 13 and up). That said, we know that our content is also used in elementary schools and colleges, and much of it is appropriate for both.

• All of our resources are free — and everything we link to in The Times is free as well, as long as you access it from our site. You do not need a Times subscription to use The Learning Network.

We’d love to hear more about you and how you use our site. If you want to join our community of educators and keep up with what’s new, bookmark our home page, follow us on Facebook or Twitter, or get our free weekly newsletter. Any questions, concerns or suggestions? Please write to us at [email protected] or post a comment.