Education

Zanzibar: NGO Helps Kids Get Serious about Their Swimming

Claire Elizabeth Felter

Many boys in the village of Kendwa know how to swim, but learning aquatic survival skills is new to everyone.

June 21, 2015 | Al Jazeera America

Iraq: Yazidi Kids Draw the Horrors They Saw Fleeing ISIL

Emily Feldman

An art activity organized for Yazidi children displaced by ISIL became a grim reminder of how deeply they — and millions of other children in Iraq and Syria — have been traumatized by war.

June 15, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Lesson Unplanned: Teenage Pregnancy in the Dominican Republic

Luke Nozicka

To counteract the alarming number of pregnant teenagers, the Dominican Republic launched an initiative in January 2015 to implement sex education in public schools.

June 12, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Zanzibar Swim Teacher Looks to Boost Female Enrollment

Claire Elizabeth Felter

Haji Ali Haji learned to swim when he was 10 or 11 years old. Now, in his hometown of Nungwi, he's teaching girls who wouldn't learn otherwise not just how to swim, but how to survive in open water.

June 08, 2015 | Next City

Can a Chicago Cure for Violence Make a Man Stop Beating His Wife?

M. Sophia Newman

In the U.S., about one in five women will experience rape; in South Africa, the figure is over half. Can "interrupters" reduce this kind of violence?

June 07, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Zanzibar Divers Take on Role of Ocean First Responders

Claire Elizabeth Felter

Since the sinking of two passenger ferries in 2011 and 2012, Zanzibari residents trained in diving have taken on the role of first responders.

May 31, 2015 | The New York Times

The Unrealized Horrors of Population Explosion

Text by Clyde Haberman, video by Sarah Weiser & Kit Roane

In the 1960s, fears of overpopulation sparked campaigns for population control. But whatever became of the population bomb?

May 29, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

Hungary: Inside Two Roma Settlements

Jeneen Interlandi

Images by Jeneen Interlandi depict life in two Roma settlements in Hungary where residents live with what looks like deep rural poverty: no indoor plumbing, no reliable electricity, no reliable heat.

May 27, 2015 | Pulitzer Center

Hungary: The Artist in Gusev

Jeneen Interlandi

A profile of Marianna Pongo, an artist and writer who lives in Gusev, a Roma settlement in Nyiregyhaza that is blighted by poverty and struggling against segregation.

May 12, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

A Roma Settlement in Hungary

Jeneen Interlandi

Photographs from the Vigtelep settlement in Miskolc, Hungary, where residents are facing eviction.

May 07, 2015 | Jeneen Interlandi | Science & Story

A History Lesson in Budapest

Jeneen Interlandi

The Roma Holocaust, known as the Porajmos, claimed hundreds of thousands of lives during WWII. The atrocity against the Roma people was not formally recognized until 1982.

April 22, 2015 | ABC Radio National (Australia)

Asia's Motorcycle Boom

Tom Hundley

Pulitzer Center senior editor Tom Hundley talks about how inexpensive motorcycles are transforming Asia in good ways and bad.

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May 26, 2013 | General news

This Week in Review: “When we rape we feel free.”

Jon Sawyer

Executive Director Jon Sawyer shares the week's reporting— from Congolese soldiers in court to the repercussions of a new law in Chile's waters.

May 21, 2013 | Education news

Classroom Techology: Asia Society/Education Week Features Pulitzer Center Education Work

Amanda Ottaway

With Global Learning guest post, Pulitzer Center education team illustrates ways to combine global issues and use of technology in the classroom.

May 17, 2013 | Project news

FRONTLINE Presents "Outlawed in Pakistan"

Press Release from FRONTLINE

“Outlawed in Pakistan” explores the country’s flawed justice system through the lens of Kainat Soomro's case against four men accused of gang raping her.

April 26, 2013 | General news

This Week in Review: The Child Catchers

Tom Hundley

Senior Editor Tom Hundley shares this weeks reporting on the Ethiopian and American parents misled by adoption agencies and the Iowa medics providing healthcare in rural Haiti.

April 16, 2013 | General news, Education news

Paul Salopek, Djibouti Classroom Skype with Michigan Students

Amanda Ottaway

Students in Chris Swinko's third-grade class at Summers Knoll School in Ann Arbor, Michigan, chatted via Skype with globetrotter Paul Salopek and a classroom of students in the Republic of Djibouti.

March 29, 2013 | General news, Education news

Meet Student Fellow Jason Hayes

Jennifer McDonald

Boston University student fellow Jason Hayes discusses his experience reporting on the cholera epidemic in Haiti in summer 2012.

March 27, 2013 | Project news, Education news

Ocean Health and Overfishing: Jim Wickens, Erik Vance in DC Classrooms

Jennifer McDonald and Amanda Ottaway

Pulitzer Center journalists Jim Wickens and Erik Vance visit DC classrooms to discuss ocean issues with students.

March 22, 2013 | General news

This Week in Review: An Eternal Divide

Tom Hundley

President Obama was in Jerusalem this week on a visit that was expected to be long on symbolism and short on substance.

March 22, 2013 | Project news, Education news

Cairo to Connecticut: Hangout with Sharif Abdel Kouddous

Katherine Doyle

Yesterday in Pulitzer Center's education office, we hosted a Google Hangout between Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous and 9th graders at Staples High School in Westport, CT.

March 12, 2013 | General news, Education news

Reporters and DC Students Talk Drug Trafficking and Immigration

Jennifer McDonald and Amanda Ottaway

Journalists Nick Miroff and Daniel Connolly visit DC classrooms, photographer Louie Palu joins them at George Washington University, for a discussion on drug trafficking and US-Mexico border issues.

March 08, 2013 | General news

This Week in Review: Untouchable

Tom Hundley

Today is International Women’s Day and the plight of women and children in crisis is a recurring theme in much of the reporting that the Pulitzer Center supports.

February 28, 2013 | General news, Project news

"You are the Bravest Man Ever," and Other Words for Paul Salopek

Third and fifth graders at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy wrote letters to Paul Salopek, as he prepared for his seven-year walk around the world.