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Teaching critical thinking through current events.

In 10-20 minutes, students read news stories, interact with informational text, practice digital media literacy skills, and answer standards-based questions as they sharpen their critical thinking skills and become smarter about our world.

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“The Juice is packed with great information to start our daily lessons. The articles are the perfect size to help my students learn about current events - and at the reading level they need. The variety of articles and extras in The Juice generate real-life questions that extend learning beyond the classroom. It’s a great way to start our day!”
Stacy Gibbs
"In one single site and in just a few minutes I can read and get the big picture of what’s going on. It used to take me ten times as long to search a current issue navigating multiple sites. By having all in one place I can immediately form my own opinion and know opposing arguments."
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"Covers all the major headlines from around the world and includes articles from credible sources you won’t find elsewhere. Love how the bias meter checks to make sure they are staying true to their mission of being impartial. A lot of places claim to be that way. They prove it."
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Multiple Reading Levels

Standards-Based

Integrated Quizzing

Vocabulary Builders

Nonbiased Stories

Learning insights

Technology should make teachers’ lives easier, not harder. So our team of educators, journalists, and technologists built a learning platform to lessen your load—letting you focus on your students.

We create and deliver engaging content every day, so you don't have to.

Technology should make teachers’ lives easier, not harder. So our team of educators, journalists, and technologists built a learning platform to lessen your load—letting you focus on your students.

Multiple Reading Levels

Standards-Based

Integrated Quizzing

Vocabulary Builders

Nonbiased Stories

Learning insights

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By 6am, teachers, students, and caregivers receive fresh content directly in their inboxes, written by highly credentialed educators and award-winning journalists.

What's inside

  • 4 news stories
  • 1 infographic
  • 1 story highlighting moral character
  • 1 STEAM-related video
  • 1 educational supplements
  • 6 standards-based quiz questions
  • 10+ interactive vocab words

What's inside

  • 4 news stories
  • 1 infographic
  • 1 story highlighting moral character
  • 1 STEAM-related video
  • 1+ educational supplements
  • 6 standards-based quiz questions
  • 10+ interactive vocab words

Informative Curriculum Supplements

“Extra Juice” supplements provide deeper dives into news stories. They are standards-based, easy-to-understand guides designed to inform and engage.

“Extra Juice” supplements provide a deeper dives into  news stories. They are standards-based, easy-to-understand guides designed to inform and engage.

Bite-Sized STEAM-Related Videos

Short videos bring art and science to life with fun, applicable examples that are easy to digest.

Bite-Sized STEAM-Related Videos

Short videos bring art and science to life with fun, applicable examples that are easy to digest.

Bite-Sized STEAM-Related Videos

Short videos bring art and science to life with fun, applicable examples that are easy to digest.

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What The Juice Community is Saying

As a middle school history teacher, I am always trying to find ways to engage my students, prepare them for the real world and help aid in the efforts of English Language Arts and test strategies. The Juice helps get the mental motors running for my students, as their "do now" at the start of class. They are receiving real time news that encourages critical thinking, while providing a global perspective on the world around them. I, as the teacher, get a big win for accessing critical data to share during PLC's, while knowing that I am supporting them in test taking strategies and other content areas. Wins all around!
Danielle ClarkMiddle School History Teacher
I love that The Juice is bite-sized information. It means my students can pull through it pretty quickly. I love that you guys do vocabulary every day, because I do it pretty heavily in my classroom, so The Juice’s vocabulary tools tie into some of the stuff I’ve been doing. And it works with some of our basic language stands, such as identifying a word in context, which is why I love the vocabulary-in-context feature!
John ClelandHigh School English Teacher in Florida
The Juice has been really useful, especially when talking about current events. I’ve been doing my own kind of current events thing in my classroom where students have to find their own article and then summarize them. It has been nice having The Juice as a supplement for articles or topics that I might not know what’s going on that moment that day, like especially after the incident at the Capitol. The article in The Juice was a very useful tool, because not every kid knew what happened, but we still had to have a conversation about it. I even specifically sent that article to teacher friend to have a conversation with her fifth-grade class. So it has been really useful for that.
GiavannaMiddle School Social Studies Teacher in New Jersey
It’s important for me to have a partnership with the teachers my child has, now more than ever. In wanting to help keep my 10 year-old challenged with objective current events vs the sensationalized and often slanted views the news offers, I found The Juice to be a home run! The Juice is consistently fair, well-written and appropriate for her learning level. I love that I knew she could read it independently or alongside me and I wouldn’t be worried about overexposure or agendas she would have to learn to shift though and interpret. It was a great source for the small reading group as well! Such a necessary and fun supplement for education!
Stephanie R.Parent of 4th Grade Distance Learner
The Juice has been a wonderful bright spot during this challenging school year. How helpful to have freshly squeezed current events articles that keep students up to date with the news and also cater to their interests. The variety of daily topics and the ability for students to select their own reading level makes the content accessible to all learners.
Andy Scopp7th Grade Social Studies Teacher in Mamaroneck, NY
The Juice is packed with great information to start our daily lessons. The articles are the perfect size to help my students learn about current events - and at the reading level they need. The variety of articles and extras in The Juice generate real-life questions that extend learning beyond the classroom. It’s a great way to start our day!
Stacy GibbsHigh School Special ED Reading
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Every issue of The Juice's Interactive News Digest is available in 4 reading levels.

We believe every student deserves the opportunity to succeed.

Our educators level all our content across 4 reading levels to facilitate differentiated learning, providing students with the same access to information regardless of their reading level.

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Grades 5-6

A new speech by China's President Xi Jinping is making people worried about a potential conflict between China and Taiwan. Xi told Chinese troops to get ready for war. He made the comments during a visit to a military base. He said soldiers should start “preparing [their minds and energy] for war." Xi wants them to "maintain a high level of alert.” The speech came four days after Chinese troops staged a military exercise. In the exercise, soldiers pretended to invade Taiwan. Taiwan is an island. It neighbors China.
Grades 7-8

China’s President Xi Jinping told Chinese troops to get ready for war. His words are raising fears of military conflict between China and Taiwan. Taiwan is a small island country. It neighbors China. Xi made the comments during a visit to a military base. He urged troops to “focus all [your] minds and energy on preparing for war and maintain a high level of alert.” The speech came four days after Chinese troops staged a military exercise. In the exercise, soldiers pretended to invade Taiwan.
Grades 9-10

China’s President Xi Jinping has called on Chinese troops to prepare for war. His rhetoric is raising fears of military conflict between the superpower and Taiwan, its island neighbor. Xi made the comments during a visit to a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday. Xi urged troops to “focus all [your] minds and energy on preparing for war and maintain a high level of alert.” The saber rattling came four days after Chinese troops staged a large-scale military exercise simulating an invasion of Taiwan.
Grades 11-12

China’s President Xi Jinping has called on Chinese troops to prepare for war, raising fears of military conflict between the superpower and Taiwan, its island neighbor. During a visit to a military base in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday, Xi urged troops to “focus all [your] minds and energy on preparing for war and maintain a high level of alert.” Xi’s saber rattling came four days after Chinese troops staged a large-scale military exercise simulating an invasion of Taiwan.

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US Politics (Grades 11-12)

Biden Executive Orders Will Reverse Trump Policies

President-elect Joe Biden plans to sign a flurry of executive orders soon after his inauguration tomorrow. He plans to address what he’s calling the four crises facing the country. They are COVID-19, the economic downturn, racial injustice, and climate change.

An executive order is a written directive from the president carrying powers similar to a federal law. Presidents have historically used these orders to push policies forward quickly because they do not require approval from Congress. The downside of executive orders is that they are easily overturned by any new president. That is not true for federal laws.

Among other moves overturning Trump administration policies, Biden’s orders will return the US to the Paris Climate Accord and to the Iran nuclear deal.

Related to the pandemic, Biden will require face masks on federal properties and during interstate travel. Other orders will be aimed at safely reopening schools and businesses.

On immigration, Biden will order agencies to determine how to reunite children separated from their families after crossing the US-Mexico border. Another order will end travel restrictions targeting majority-Muslim countries.

Other orders will address “equity and support communities of color,” criminal justice reform, and access to healthcare.

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Bold words are interactive vocab words in The Juice.

Brendan Kells

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After a career spent teaching students to become more sophisticated consumers of information in the classroom, I now serve as The Juice’s lead education specialist. I ensure our products are aligned with the educational promises we’ve made to the educational community.

Like many career educators, in addition to my 14 years as a classroom teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, I served in many roles, including nine summers as the Principal of the Cambridge-Harvard Summer Academy. As a principal, teacher, mentor, advisor, and coach, I taught a wide range of subjects to a wide range of learners.

I earned my BA in History from Boston College and my Masters in teaching from Tufts University.

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I have over 30 years of experience in technology, software and Internet development. After starting my career building cutting-edge medical diagnostic equipment, I spent a decade at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center developing and programming a parallel supercomputer, then worked on interactive and Internet streaming-media technologies and large-scale database applications. After that, I worked at an early-stage Internet company developing streaming video content and have been involved in technology assessment for private equity, venture and public company investment for more than 15 years.

I have been developing web properties for public and private companies as well as for not-for-profits since the 2000’s. I am the holder of multiple patents and am published in peer-reviewed technology journals. I hold degrees from Columbia University’s School of Engineering (BSEE) and NYU Polytechnic (MSCS).

When not working or spending time with my family, I can be found playing violin with the Yonkers Philharmonic Orchestra, working on my golf game or pursuing my passion for photography.

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