Our 10-week-long Summer Reading Contest is now half over, but by posting here by 7 a.m. Eastern on July 29, you can enter for Week 6. Just tell us what interested you most in The Times this week and why.
Week 3 of our Summer Reading Contest attracted 583 responses. And as the number of participants rises each week, it gets harder and harder to choose between them.
This week we crown Alison Oh, who writes about how a Times Op-Ed essay convinced her that until societal problems are personal, most of us take little action against them. Read her winning essay below, then find the names of our six runners-up and 11 honorable mentions.
Workers at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland made the final preparations Thursday for the Republican National Convention, which opens on Monday.Credit Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press
To participate this week, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on July 22 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
Maybe you’ve been focused on politics in anticipation of what many expect to be a chaotic Republican convention. Not only is there the possibility of a drawn-out fight over Donald J. Trump’s nomination, but some supporters of gay rights are threatening to strike the entire Republican platform, which is staunchly conservative in its treatment of sexuality, gender and religion.
This week, many of the students we honor below wrote about a scientific process or phenomenon they probably wouldn’t have ever even thought about but for a Times article, graphic or video.
Whether marveling at the mating rituals of fireflies, worrying about how much of California’s water it takes to grow the almonds we eat, mulling the future implications of lab-grown pig bones, or, like our winner, Claire McClannan, getting intrigued by a natural resource she previously found too boring to consider, these writers took us along as they learned.
To participate this week, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on July 15 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
This week, convulsive events further divided a nation already torn over race and law enforcement, raising anguished pleas for unity and, The Times writes, “echoes of the protests and divisions of the late 1960s and early 1970s.”
A new installation by the artist Christo, “The Floating Piers,” consists of temporary bridges spanning Italy’s Lake Iseo.Credit Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
The stories most frequently mentioned from June 17 to 23 focused on big news events like the shootings in Orlando, the Stanford rape case and “Brexit” — but, as you’ll see if you scan the runners-up and honorable mentions below, more whimsical pieces, like this one, also garnered quite a few mentions.
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down parts of a restrictive Texas law that would have severely limited abortion access in the state. Activists outside the Supreme Court reacted to the news.
By SHANE O’NEILL and MEGAN SPECIA on Publish Date June 27, 2016.
Photo by Zach Gibson/The New York Times.
To participate this week, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on July 8 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
Features like the leisure pool at Texas Tech University in Lubbock are examples of colleges’ changing relationship with students, writes Frank Bruni. Related ArticleCredit David Bowser for The New York Times
To participate this week, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on July 1 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
This classic 2002 New York Times photo by Vincent Laforet is of Manhattan workers on the Bryant Park lawn at lunch hour. You can see the original or purchase a print at The New York Times store.Credit Vincent Laforet/The New York Times
Dear Readers,
Before you pack up and head out to wherever the summer is taking you, we’d be grateful if you’d take a few minutes and fill out our survey.
Help us find out what’s working and what you’d like to see improved — and what we should add to make our blog even more effective for teaching and learning with The Times.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be poring through the results. We hope to gather ideas as we continue to update and improve our offerings for the 2016-17 school year.
Thank you in advance for your time and thoughtful answers. You can also feel free to email us at LNfeedback@nytimes.com if you have questions or specific suggestions. And, of course, if you taught with The Times this year and have a lesson to share, we encourage you to submit it to our Great Ideas From Our Readers series.
To participate, just post a comment here by 7 a.m. Eastern on June 24 and answer the questions, “What interested you most in The Times this week? Why?”
