In its Second Annual 15-Second Vocabulary Video Contest, The New York Times recently featured the work of Professor Bridget Dalton in "developing vocabulary through multimodal expression." Professor ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A new analysis of federal data that provide a deeper and more systematic look into students’ ability to understand the meaning of words in context than was ...

Think about all the ways you promote content vocabulary in your classroom. Got that bulletin board? Got that word wall? Got a few posters with pictures and words around your classroom? Do students ...

Go to a paint store, and you'll be overwhelmed by the choices, from Aspen Bark White to Zydeco Purple. But it turns out that early humans probably had words for just two colors, and many ...