Sen. Chuck Schumer earned some attention for himself last week by using the word agglomerate in a statement to the press, saying of a series of immigration bills coming out of the House, ""they'll all get agglomerated as we go to conference at some point." Emily Heil of The Washington Post had this to say about Schumer's word choice.Continue reading...
Looking for a simple way to bone up on vocabulary for the GRE? Check out eleven new GRE Vocabulary Lists organized by the letters of the alphabet.Continue reading...
Looking for a quick and easy way to include vocabulary instruction in your curriculum? These three steps will help you save prep and classroom time, differentiate instruction, and create a vocabulary learning experience students say is addictive and fun.Continue reading...
The eagerly anticipated final season of "Breaking Bad" has led to a lot of viewers catching up on past episodes marathon-style. For my latest Wall Street Journal column, I use this moment of mass-media consumption to dive into the history of "binge-watching."Continue reading...
In "Sneak Preview: What the New SAT and Digital ACT Might Look Like," New York Times reporter Tamar Lewin interviewed David Coleman, who assumed leadership of the College Board last October, after having served as architect of the Common Core.Continue reading...
Library Journal and Oxford University Press recently organized a webcast entitled "Should 'Tweeps' Be in the Dictionary?" about the role of dictionaries in the age of social media. Participating were Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries at OUP, Henrietta Thornton-Verma, reviews editor at Library Journal, and Ben Zimmer, executive producer of Vocabulary.com and the Visual Thesaurus. Read Thornton-Verma's recap here, and listen to the full webcast here.