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The 2015-16 Vocabulary Bowl Kicks Off!
Preseason is over. Let the yearlong word learning competition begin.
Teachers, administrators, and students, it's go time! Following the September "preseason," the second annual Vocabulary Bowl officially kicks off on October 1st, 2015 and will run through April 30, 2016. If you aren't signed up to play yet, this is a great time to get in on the action.
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The New York Times + Vocabulary.com = Enlightened Students
The New York Times Learning Network partners with Vocabulary.com
Here at Vocabulary.com, we have always believed that one of the best ways to improve your vocabulary while learning about world events is by regularly reading a newspaper like The New York Times. That's why we are especially proud to announce our partnership with The New York Times Learning Network . This partnership will further boost students' literacy skills by bringing Vocabulary.com's word-learning power to students accessing The Times' fresh and engaging content on a daily basis.
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While many of our fellow Vocabularians have finished the school year and are heading out for their summer breaks, we here at Vocabulary.com are hard at work making improvements to the site.
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We've redesigned the look and added some new features to Vocabulary Lists to make it easier to find and store the lists you most want to use.
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Students Abandon "Call of Duty" for Vocab Learning
A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist Uncovers Why
Writing in Sunday's Houston Chronicle, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Lisa Falkenberg shone a spotlight on the hundreds of Houston students who got hooked on Vocabulary.com, as one "campus-wide obsession" turned into a recipe for academic success.
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Teachers, we've got great news. Now, when you sign up as an educator on Vocabulary.com, you can create classes for every period you teach, monitor the performance of each class, gain insight into where you need to focus your instruction, and use class leaderboards to light a competitive fire among your students.
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In the first annual Vocabulary Bowl, the students of César E. Chavez High School outsmarted the competition, mastering more than 300,000 words over the academic year to beat out thousands of others schools from around North America. More than 200,000 students in more than 16,000 schools across the country participated in this year's Vocabulary Bowl.
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