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  1. Teachers at Work

     Heidi Hayes Jacobs on Making Literacy Instruction Work
    Thu May 20 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of literacy, curriculum and instruction, and educational reform. In the first part of our interview, Heidi exposes the pitfalls of American literacy instruction and explains what we can do to improve it.

  2. Word Routes

     Mailbag Friday: "Bamboozle"
    Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 EDT 2008

    Welcome to a new feature on Word Routes: Mailbag Friday! This is where we answer your questions about the origins and evolving usage of words and phrases. If you've got a burning question, just click here and we'll do our best to address it in a future installment of Mailbag Friday.

    First up is Lisa W. of Smyrna, DE, who writes: "Our youngest son earned the nickname 'The Bamboozler' at an early age, for his uncanny ability to outwit his unsuspecting parents. That got me thinking, where does the word bamboozle come from?"

  3. Word Routes

     Are You Esurient for New Words?
    Wed Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2009
    A couple of weeks ago, Merriam-Webster announced their top words of 2009 based on the intensity of lookups to its online dictionary and thesaurus. Now Dictionary.com has their own announcement of the most looked-up words of the past year. Though the main list is full of usual suspects like affect and effect (perennial stumpers even for native English speakers), the "top gainer" is a very unusual word: esurient, meaning 'extremely hungry; desirous; greedy.' What might explain the ravenous interest in this obscure term?

  4. Announcements

     Introducing Group Subscriptions
    Thu Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 2005
    Small groups can now subscribe to the Visual Thesaurus and be billed automatically through one credit card.

  5. Word Count

     Killer App: Will the iPhone Monitor Your Language?
    Tue Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2010

    Apple's latest iPhone app will clean up your text messages and force you to brush up your French, or Spanish, or Japanese, all at the same time.

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently approved patent 7,814,163, an Apple invention that can censor obscene or offensive words in text messages while doubling as a foreign-language tutor with the power to require, for example, "that a certain number of Spanish words per day be included in e-mails for a child learning Spanish."

  6. Lesson Plans

     The Three M's of Statistics: Mode, Median, Mean
    Wed Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to learn more about mode, median, and mean, and to apply their knowledge in solving some basic statistical math problems?

  7. Word Routes

     "Jazz": A Tale of Three Cities
    Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    New Orleans is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of jazz. But is it also the birthplace of "jazz" — that is, the name for the music and not just the music itself? New evidence shows that the term jazz, also spelled jas or jass in the early days, was in use in New Orleans as early as 1916. However, that doesn't beat Chicago, where the term was applied to music in 1915. And while many of the Windy City's early jazz musicians hailed from New Orleans, Chicago likely borrowed the word jazz from another city: San Francisco.

  8. Blog Excerpts

     "Punctuation Hero" or Vandal?
    Thu Aug 27 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In the United Kingdom, the apostrophe is rapidly disappearing from street signs. But one man has decided to take matters into his own hands.

  9. Word Count

     Writing and Philosophy
    Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 EDT 2015
    Writing and reading philosophy are two human activities famous for their inherent difficulty. If philosophy is thinking about thinking, writing philosophy is writing about thinking about thinking, and reading philosophy is reading writing about thinking about thinking.

  10. Word Routes

     How "Emo" Got Political
    Fri Jun 07 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    When Fox News host Megyn Kelly gamely took on Erick Erickson, a contributor to the network, for his provocative statements about gender roles last week, she was puzzled by one word in particular that Erickson had used to describe his ideological opponents. "I don't know what the word is... some sort of liberals, eco-liberals, what did you call them?" "Emo liberals," Erickson clarified.
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