That Sinking Feeling
Rapid development and increasing groundwater extraction are causing parts of Kolkata to subside. Is the delta megacity doing enough to avert a crisis?
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Rapid development and increasing groundwater extraction are causing parts of Kolkata to subside. Is the delta megacity doing enough to avert a crisis?
In the Kiski Valley, mill closures helped push half the kids into poverty, forcing a principal and his staff to change their thinking.
When Judy Gladney began attending University City High School in the '60s, she was one of its very first African American students, and found herself bridging two disparate worlds.
‘I always felt like an outsider at U. City,’ Judy Gladney says. But that may finally change this week.
Sexual violence is normalized in Ugandan culture, while sex and sexuality are so taboo that nobody discusses them. Passionate women are rising up to lead the fight against these harmful norms.
Sexual violence is ingrained into Ugandan culture, largely due to its normalization in society. Finally, a powerful movement is underway to start the conversation about the issue in Uganda.
Attribution science is connecting weather events directly to climate change. I spoke with the two researchers who found that the 2018 Japan Heatwave was only possible because of climate change.
A behind-the-scenes look at interviews with women in Turkey's computer science industry.
Women in Turkey interested in studying computer studies and related fields struggle with ways to overcome gender bias and discrimination in order to join the IT workforce.
Why do women in Turkey choose to pursue a career in the IT industry? Are girls socialized to choose certain occupations over others?
One of a series of interviews with women studying computer science in Turkey: Here Shirin Alrhoob speaks with a student at Istanbul Technical University.
How should Turkey's IT industry get girls excited about STEM? In its simplest form, the answer is like a science experiment itself: Give them access and watch what happens.
As part of the Pulitzer Center's education program, middle school students from the School Without Walls at Francis Stevens went behind the scenes at USA Today.
Pulitzer Center Senior Education Manager Fareed Mostoufi is featured on FOX8.
Sixth grade students in Wheeling, IL completed a six-week social studies unit using Pulitzer Center reporting projects and journalist visits to connect ancient civilizations with the present day.
Students created photo/text "milestones" after practicing close observation, descriptive writing, and interview skills with Pulitzer Center staff and journalists.
Photography has the ability to impact how you see your community, your culture, and current events happening all over the globe. Bringing together educators and photographers, this workshop aimed to demonstrate the power of a picture.
Journalists and historians discuss the intersection of their fields and how they can work together at the 2018 American Historical Association annual meeting.
Students from across Washington D.C. show off their photojournalism skills at the "Everyday DC" exhibition, the result of an educational collaboration between the Pulitzer Center and D.C. Public Schools.
Students, families, and teachers gathered to celebrate the 2nd Annual EverydayDC Photography Exhibit.
Students from across the city show off their photojournalism chops at the "Everyday DC" exhibition, which marks the culmination of an educational collaboration between the Pulitzer Center and D.C. Public Schools.
The Pulitzer Center education team selects the top 10 lesson plans of 2017, featuring critical stories sure to resonate in the new year.
The festival screened five Pulitzer-sponsored films, which centered on public health challenges faced by migrants and refufees across the globe.
6th grade students at Macfarland Middle School learned about close observation, caption-writing, and visual literacy in a two-day, bilingual "Walk Like a Journalist "workshop.