At 12:30 p.m. on the 2nd in the library of Seoul A Elementary School. As lunchtime approached, the corridors buzzed with ...

The Fall 2025 Vocabulary Bowl set a new record, with nearly one million learners worldwide mastering more than 5.3 million words SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 5,323,633. Yes, you ...

Deep-dive data analysis helped educators identify issues and arrive at “text, information, picture” charts as a solution.

Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

Book clubs and language lessons are two great ways to combine reading new words and sharing them with others, Prof. Wright said. So is playing social word games. For example, expanding your vocabulary ...

Students, parents and school principals all instinctively know that some teachers are better than others. Education researchers have spent decades trying — with mixed success — to calculate exactly ...

The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) annual review has given India’s national accounts statistics, which includes key figures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross Value Added (GVA), a ...

A Latin word for “cleverness” or “skillfulness,” facetiae came to be used to refer to a collection of witty sayings in 16th-century English. But things took a turn for the worse in Victorian slang, ...

Borrowed into English from Yiddish (and descended from a German word meaning “juicy”), zaftig refers to a woman who is plump or curvaceous. An old southwest English dialect word meaning “to heat ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...