In Context High School offers cross-curricular content aligned to national and state curriculum standards and reinforces the development of skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Learners can access reference articles, primary sources, and news content including full-text newspapers and periodicals like The Economist, The New York Times, National Geographic, Newsweek, Popular Science, and Smithsonian. Empower learning with hundreds of thousands of images, videos, and audio selections that include archival film clips, broadcast video, BBC News, New York Times video, and NPR. Subjects covered include: Humanities & Social Sciences, Literature, Science, U.S. History, and World History. See full  Title List.

Target Audience:  Grades 9-12  

Content Connections:  All 

Access: Username and password information for BCPS staff and students can be found on the BCPS Digital Content Access Page.

⭐Click here to see a list of translation, accommodation, and modification features available for Multilingual Learners and students with special education needs.⭐

• Interface available in more than 34 languages

• ReadSpeaker technology with 19 text-to-speech languages

• Dictionary 

• Downloadable PDFs allow for offline reading anytime, anywhere

• Source citations at the bottom of each article. Export citations to NoodleTools.

• Highlight & take notes; Sign In with Microsoft Office to export highlights/notes to OneDrive. 

• Lexile/Reading Level:  Use Advanced Search for a target audience or Lexile range; or after searching, Limit Search Results (on right sidebar) to a reading level or Lexile range.  

  • Use this Reading Level Correlations chart to match Lexile to grade level.