There are now more people under the age of 25 in the world than ever before, presenting both opportunities for social progress and considerable challenges. Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Youth” feature reporting on young people, the issues they face and the potential for change they represent. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on youth.
In spite of students' poor performance, the Missouri Virtual Academy and its local partner, a rural Missouri school district in need of money, have seen an increase in enrollment and profit.
Schools all over the world have tried different ways to keep kids learning this school year — and then tried again.
A high school counselor talks about the incredible challenges many of his students are facing due to the pandemic.
Dedicated social workers and public health officials are on the front line of the battle to save babies.
The 30-minute one-act play features a black 16-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer.
The COVID-19 pandemic further complicates a global fight to end female genital cutting.
Targeting racist thoughts when they’re still schoolyard taunts has been the strategy in Germany for combating far-right extremism.
The pandemic is disproportionately affecting the Latinx community — including survivors of assault.
Activamente is a community engagement journalistic project that examines how COVID-19 quarantines affect the mental health of young people.
As Abby lives in isolation in San Francisco's Mission District and does her learning online, she dreams of space and being an astronaut.
Food insecurity has soared during the pandemic, but Alamo City drivers in Texas came up with a solution: Get meals to the hungry.
At the start of the pandemic, Cielo’s family was forced to close their empanada business. The San Francisco high school student tells her family’s story in this graphic memoir.
"The Battle for One" shows a Rust Belt city’s fight to save babies' lives.
Using both theater and journalism, this reporting covers the point of view of a Black teen who was shot by a white police officer.
Report Card explores how the pandemic has exacerbated and brought attention to issues of inequity in public education.
COVID-19 is leading to a rise in child marriages by families desperate for economic help in developing countries.
How did Germany reopen schools compared to the United States, and with cases ticking back up in Germany, will its early success and the United States’ troubled restart hold through the fall?
In 2016, the number of unaccompanied homeless youth reached 100,000 for the first time ever, and experts suggest official numbers are much higher. With school out indefinitely during the coronavirus crisis, the race is on to find these "Hidden Homeless" and help them.
With the recent announcement that all stateless babies born of Venezuelan parents would receive Colombian citizenship, the international community saw it as a victory, a brave response in the face of crisis. But these refugee families’ problems are far from solved.
In August 2019, India scrapped Kashmir's special status, moving in extra troops, suspending communication, and arresting thousands. This is the story of the women and children who were left behind.
After a disturbing sexual abuse epidemic at an American charity in Monrovia, Liberians opened a new school in its place. Meanwhile, rape continuously plagues Liberia through its faulty legal system.
Lagos' secretive culture has made it harder to tackle domestic violence. Regardless, women are resisting the secrecy, changing the culture, and speaking about their experiences.
In the aftermath of the worst anti-Semitic slaughter in United States history, the neighborhood of Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, relies on a century of deep urban community to cope with trauma.
What does it take for a society to recover from a suicide epidemic?
What compels migrants to leave Central America? What challenges do children face at the U.S.-Mexico border? Meet Jaime Joyce, who traveled to Honduras and Tijuana to report on migration.
Journalists Rich Lord, Michael M. Santiago, and Stacy Innerst speak about their year-long exploration of child poverty—one that takes them to Scotland, where the national government, local leaders, and the health system work to ensure that by 2030, no more than 5 percent of kids will live in poverty.
Esther Ruth Mbabazi discusses her reporting project on "Nodding Syndrome," a neurological condition affecting over 2100 children in Northern Uganda.
In Nome, Alaska, a city reckons with a crisis of unaddressed sexual violence, reports Victoria Mckenzie.
Multimedia journalist Melissa Bunni Elian talks about her experience reporting on AFROPUNK as a cultural touchpoint for black identity and the African diaspora.
Patricia Huon and Andreea Câmpeanu traveled to South Sudan and Uganda to report on children and youth who were associated with armed groups—looking at how these children were dealing with trauma while reintegrating back home.
Journalist Perla Trevizo examines the conditions in Guatemala that lead families to migrate to the U.S.
Andres Gonzalez investigates the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools, producing a body of work titled "American Origami."
In the United States, one in every 28 children has a parent in jail or in prison. TIME for Kids executive editor Jaime Joyce reports on two programs that help families stay connected.
Meet Frederick Bernas and Rayan Hindi, who discuss the challenges of producing a documentary about a ballet program in Rio de Janeiro's Alemão favela.
Yemen is currently home to the world's worst humanitarian disaster, with vulnerable citizens caught in the crossfire of a war that has raged for three years.
Raghu Karnad reported on the vast scale of residential schooling for tribal children in India—and the cost it exacts on fragile tribal cultures and heritage.
Educators who participated in the Fall 2020 Teacher Fellowship cohort focused on Arts, Journalism, and Justice connected with journalists and educators to write, facilitate, and evaluate units that connected students to underreported news stories and media literacy skills.
Fall 2020 Teacher Fellows in this cohort connected with journalists and other passionate educators to write, facilitate, and evaluate units for 400 students in eight states.
This fall, in the midst of an unusual academic year, over two hundred students in Washington, D.C. were still able to explore filmmaking and circus arts through virtual field trips with “Circus Without Borders,” a Pulitzer Center-supported documentary directed by Susan Gray, and produced by Linda Matchan.
Over 2,200 students will engage with the material, which is based on a New York Times Magazine initiative that interrogates the legacy of slavery in the United States.
Grantees Fredrick Mugira and Ejiro Umukoro share their experiences covering pervasive environmental and social issues in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In this webinar for educators, Pulitzer Center staff, journalist William Freivogel, Amelia Blakely, and educator Christina Sneed explore The 1857 Project and implementation of its connected curriculum.
In this webinar for educators, Pulitzer Center education staff introduce resources connected to The 1619 Project and Christina Sneed discusses her classroom engagements with the project.
Journalist Brittany Gibson leads a webinar for students on voter suppression and disenfranchisement in U.S. elections, and how people are fighting against it.
In these on-demand webinars, the Pulitzer Center education team guides participants in learning how to work with under-reported news stories for our upcoming contest: Local Letters for Global Change.
Catherine Irving, teacher at Northside College Preparatory High School, shares her experience of having Pulitzer Center grantees, Simon Ostrovsky and Marcia Biggs, virtually visit her classroom.
The Pulitzer Center invited educators to view a webinar that connected participants to the Center's education staff to explore methods for using reporting exercises to increase students’ engagement, critical thinking skills, media literacy skills, and empathy.
The Pulitzer Center's partnership with Free Spirit Media, now in its 11th year, connects teen filmmakers with grantee journalists.
This lesson sharpens literacy skills through analysis of underreported stories. Students interview children around the world about their experiences during the pandemic and make connections.
Students use descriptive statistics to create data visualizations for underreported stories about the impacts COVID-19, then reflect on their graphic journalistically, mathematically, and personally.
Students analyze impacts of the pandemic on different groups of people. They create reports to highlight community members who are helping combat the impacts of COVID-19 in their own communities.
Students evaluate news stories about COVID-19 in the U.S. and reflect on the pandemic's impact in their own communities, then brainstorm in order to create art that inspires hope in their...
Students evaluate underreported news stories and other sources to prepare and conduct debates on pressing issues that matter to them.
Students reflect on stories they have seen about migration, and then analyze text and photography from eight short articles about women from different parts of the world who were forced to migrate.
This lesson will explore the art of telling individual stories through different mediums while engaging with the reporting from The COVID-19 Writers Project (C19WP).
In this lesson, students will explore five components of media literacy (Access, Analyze, Evaluate, Create, and Act) through engagement with Pulitzer Center news stories.
This resource includes quotes, key terms/names/historical events, and guiding questions for each of over 30 essays and creative works that compose The 1619 Project.
Explore reading guides, a lesson plan, and extension activities for The 1857 Project, a journalism project that chronicles the legacy of racial injustice in and around St. Louis.
In this lesson, students will analyze how photojournalists tell under-reported stories using photography and apply tips for doing so themselves from Pulitzer Center-supported journalists.
Students explore news articles and instructional videos to evaluate how they can find and analyze under-reported stories in the news, and in their own communities
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