Schools digest: Climate change, Russia’s mistakes, College Sports
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.
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Five things to read
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Climate change for schools. Read our special report on science, economics and politics, exploring extreme weather, the greenhouse effect, externalities, green jobs and student climate champions
Visual storytelling: How Russia’s mistakes and Ukrainian resistance altered Putin’s war
Maria Stepanova: The war of Putin’s imagination
An award-winning Russian writer on how fear as well as dictatorship led her homeland to launch its disastrous invasion of Ukraine
How is Ukraine using western weapons to exploit Russian weaknesses?
Moscow’s failure to make a lightning advance and capture major cities owes much to the use of compact equipment
How did a vast Amazon warehouse change life in a former mining town? Ten years after her groundbreaking investigation into the retail giant, Sarah O’Connor returns to Rugeley to find out what’s changed
Teacher picks
We welcome additional teachers’ recommendations and questions: please email us at schools@ft.com with your suggestions.
Politics: Jal Patel picks for Global politics: Why politics limits climate ambitions. Read all our Politics picks here
Economics: Gavin Clarke picks for Externalities: We must pay the cost of carbon if we are to cut it. Read all our Economics picks here
IB DP Theory of knowledge: Michael Dunn picks for Natural and human sciences: The race to curb global warming. Read all our Theory of Knowledge picks here
Geography: Alasdair Monteith picks for Carbon and water cycle: The rise of ‘extreme weather attribution’. Read all our Geography picks here
Business: Peter McGinn picks for People: P&O Ferries sacks 800 sailors and halts crossings for days. Read all our Business picks here
IB DP History: Read all our History picks here
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We must pay the cost of carbon if we are to cut it
Student picks
We encourage student readers to select FT articles they found interesting and tell us why. Email your ideas to schools@ft.com or Tweet @FT4S.
Advait Chandramouli at Singapore American School picks My phone was controlling me, so I went on a digital diet.
Archanaa Baheerathan at the Stephen Perse Foundation picks What $1mn buys you in prime property around the world. This article showed the differences in property types around the world. It has made me curious about other aspects of real estate and I’ll be sure to check out more.
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