Make the News Matter to Teens with Current Events for High School Students

The New York Times Upfront

Bring the World into Your Classroom

Make the news matter to your students with the #1 current events and social studies resource for teens. Upfront inspires meaningful reading, thinking, and discussion, so learners engage with your curriculum and their world.

Turn Amazing Stories into Extraordinary Lessons

It's already done for you! Ready-to-go teaching kits come with every text for instant, high-interest lessons. Check out our comprehensive suite of multimedia teaching tools that elevate instruction.

Engaging Nonfiction
Share age-appropriate texts on any device. Listen to read-aloud audio.
Real-World Videos
Introduce and extend lessons while growing background knowledge.
Skills Activities
Reinforce social studies and ELA skills with activity sheets.
Resource Archive
Access 100s of texts, videos, and more—searchable by topic.

Get Time-Saving Teacher Support

Optimize planning and teaching with step-by-step lesson plans, a pacing guide, and more. All this support means implementation is easy!
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Read stories. Watch videos. Browse activities. And more! Give it a try in your classroom.

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Meet Your Academic Standards

Raise student achievement by aligning lessons to instructional goals. With built-in correlations to state and national standards, you'll stay on track all year.

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Align Our Topics to Your Instruction

Get the right texts at the right time sent right to you. Look at our 2024–25 calendar. Your curriculum, our content—it's the perfect match!

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Build Essential Skills

Help every student succeed through motivating skills practice leading to grade-level mastery. With activity pages, writing support, and more, build skills in the following areas:

Text Analysis

Social Studies and History

Language Development

Writing

Research

Test Preparation

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Reach Every Learner with Differentiation

Meet students where they are—and take them where they need to be. Use multiple reading levels, a text-to-speech audio feature, closed-captioned videos, assessments, and more. Differentiate with a click!