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Middle School Library: News/Current Events

News and Current Events Sites

 

Newsela

Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science.  All articles are available in five Lexile levels, ranging (roughly) from third to 12th grade. Each leveled text features a quiz tailored to that particular article plus a writing prompt that asks students to write and respond to what they've read. 

Gale's Opposing Viewpoints in Context 

Opposing Viewpoints in Context is for those seeking contextual information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. It features continuously updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites organized into a user-friendly portal experience.

Gale's Global Issues in Context

Global Issues in Context empowers users with the tools they need to understand today’s world issues from a global perspective.   Global Issues in Context supports research in virtually every corner of the library and in a wide variety of subject areas, including sociology, current events, civics, politics, science, economics, cultural/religious studies, women’s studies, human rights, English composition and many more.

The Jakarta Globe

Jakarta Globe brings our readers unrivaled, authoritative reporting and writing in English on Indonesia, Asia and the wider world.

 

The Jakarta Post

The Jakarta Post is a daily English-language newspaper in Indonesia.

Online Newspapers Directory

Thousands of newspapers at one's fingertips listed by country and region.

ProCon

Through our website, ProCon.org, we serve as a non-biased information source for our users. We present sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues, thoroughly researched and compiled by our research staff and editors.

CNN International

CNN International is the world leader in online news and information and seeks to inform, engage and empower the world. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated team in CNN bureaus around the world, CNN's digital platforms deliver news from almost 4,000 journalists in every corner of the globe.