Here’s What You Need to Know About the College Board’s New SAT Score
May 18, 2019Ray Sanchez CNNLexile: 1200L–1300L The roughly 2 million fledgling college students who take out their No. 2 pencils for the SAT each year will now be
A School District Was Accused of “Lunch Shaming” Policies. It’s a National Problem
May 10, 2019Gaby Del ValleVoxLexile: 1400–1500 A Rhode Island school district recently got national attention for its misguided attempt to get students to pay for past-due lunch debts.
Beyond Meat is going public. Meat alternatives are going mainstream.
Beyond Meat, the plant-based meat company, started publicly trading Thursday morning, and the stock more than doubled in value right out of the gate—it’s now trading at $60, when just last week the company was estimating it would start selling at $19 to $21.
The Flip Phone Is Back. Have People Had Enough of Constant Connection?
April 26, 2019Elizabeth FlockPBS News HourLexile: 1100–1200 L Product designer Kaiwei Tang spent years designing smartphones for big companies like Nokia and Motorola. But he started to feel
Local Group Is Blamed for Attacks, but Sri Lanka Suspects “International Network”
Sri Lankan officials said on Monday that the coordinated bombings of churches and hotels across the country on Easter Sunday had been carried out by National Thowheeth Jama’ath, a little-known radical Islamist group, with help from international militants.
Legalizing Cannabis: Does Making Marijuana Legal Help or Harm Americans?
April 8, 2019Liberty VittertNewsweekLexile: 1100–1200L The legalization of marijuana has been a topic of contention and confusion for both sides of the debate. The federal government still deems
Nipsey Hussle Had a Vision for South L.A. It All Started with a Trip to Eritrea
At the age of 19, Nipsey Hussle took the money he earned hustling on the streets of South Los Angeles and bought a plane ticket to his father’s homeland—a tiny country in eastern Africa that fought a brutal war to secure its place in the world as Eritrea.
It’s Dangerous to Be a Boy
Early in my first go at being a father, I was hijacked by ancient impulses. Our family lived in a rowhouse neighborhood in Philadelphia, and right down the street was a small playground where gangs of boys gathered for games of stickball and basketball.
Indiana Teachers Were Shot with Pellets for a Drill. Are Active-Shooting Trainings Going Too Far?
An active-shooter training in Indiana took a gruesome turn earlier this year when [sheriff]’s deputies shot elementary school teachers in the back with plastic pellets, mock-execution style.
Viral Cat Videos and the Man Who Watches Thousands of Them
I sit with almost 800 other people in a packed, historic movie theatre in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The room is lined with ornate Buddha statues, smells like buttery popcorn and buzzes with excitement.
Daylight Saving Is Here. Suppose We Made This Time Change Our Last?
March 9, 2019Kirk JohnsonThe New York TimesLexile®: 1300L-1400L A day is a day, with so many hours of darkness and so many of light. It’s a hard reality
YouTube Has a Pedophilia Problem, and Its Advertisers Are Jumping Ship
March 1, 2019Chavie LieberVoxLexile: 1275-1375L For years, health professionals and childhood advocacy groups have been vocal about their concerns over child safety and YouTube. The company has taken