Corkscrew Demolishes School Leaderboard, With Reading and Writing Results to Match
Local media is taking note.
In competition that's getting hotter with every passing month, Corkscrew Middle School demolished the monthly record on the Vocabulary.com school leaderboard, earning more than 50 million points for their second leaderboard win. The Fort Myers, FL News-Press reported on the story, and teachers say they can see improvements in students reading, writing, and excitement about learning.
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The School Leaderboard Competition Heats Up... and the Word is Getting Out!
Brooklyn Tech brings home the Champions' Banner for December play.
The battle for Vocabulary.com's school leaderboard is getting intense! As New York's Brooklyn Technical High School becomes the latest school to top the hotly contested rankings, the competition is attracting national media attention, with an article in USA Today on how students are rising to the challenge.
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We had so much fun watching the 500-plus vocabulary videos sent in the Vocabulary.com-New York Times Learning Network vocabulary in video contest that we just couldn't narrow the winners down to a logical five, but had to choose seven, and list a hefty number of honorable mentions.
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New Champions' Banner for School Leaderboard Wins
Designed to take pride of place in any trophy display.
With school leaderboards more active than ever, we're instituting a new reward for play: a Champions banner for monthly school leaderboard winners, emblazoned with the winning school's name.
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Here at Vocabulary.com, we've just created a new home for morphology resources, "Morphology & Roots," where you can one-stop-shop for Vocabulary Lists that teach affixes and roots.
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Vote for Vocabulary.com to present at SXSWedu with The New York Times Learning Network and a teacher from High Technology High School on "Text-Mining the News for Student Literacy"!
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As judge last week for The Fourth Annual New York Times Summer Reading Contest, we at Vocabulary.com were impressed by the ease and fluency with which teen writers used specific and powerful words.
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