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Welcome to Current Events!

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.” —Albert Einstein

The world events of today shape our future in every way, from how well we understand one another to how healthy we keep our planet. Current Events gathers the most important and unique news stories into a magazine written and designed for students. Our readers don't just learn facts, they learn to think critically about the influences within their world and about their own responsibilities to make this a better world for everyone.

On this site you will find story updates, additional resources, including Smart Stuff quizzes, and links to CE’s News Blog for students. Be sure to check back each issue!

Issue 8 News Updates

  • On October 28, the Iraqi Cabinet approved a series of changes that it wants made in the proposed U.S.-Iraq security pact. According to the Times Online of London, at the top of the Iraqi Cabinet’s list is making sure the agreement leaves no chance that U.S. troops could remain in Iraq after Dec. 31, 2011. The Times cited unnamed sources who also said that the Iraqi government wants to change the title of the agreement to emphasize the withdrawal of U.S. forces. Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told reporters that the changes were necessary and essential.

  • The United States outraged Syria, Iraq, and several of their neighbors when it launched a helicopter raid across the Iraqi border into Syria on October 26. The raid killed at least seven people. U.S. officials say one of the people killed in the raid was an important Al Qaeda figure who had been suspected of smuggling foreign fighters into Iraq to join the insurgency. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem called the U.S. action “criminal and terrorist aggression.” His government filed an official complaint with the United Nations. Read more on Al Qaeda’s alleged operations in Syria in this AP report.

    • Election Coverage
    Election Day is Tuesday, November 4. Be sure to sign up to receive your free Classroom Newsbreak on November 5. Go to www.weeklyreader.com/emailsubs for the signup form. The electronic Newsbreak will include a story about the election, election results, reproducible, and teaching tips.

    Your 2008 Election Kit, “Ready, Set, Vote,” accompanied CE Issue 4. To download the kit, go to www.weeklyreader.com and log in with your subscriber account on the address page of your Teacher’s Guide. Be sure to check out these subscriber-only exclusives: interactive election kit pages; access to Weekly Reader’s student presidential election poll; and historic Weekly Reader coverage of past elections with teaching activities.

    A New Tool For Teachers
    WR BOOST gives your students online access to Current Events stories. Students can earn points for taking quizzes about those stories, and you get useful reports outlining how they did. Interested? Find out more at wrteachers.uboost.com/.

     

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