The word Halloween seems like a good place to start. The Christian holiday All Saints' Day has been celebrated on Nov. 1 for over a thousand years. Another word for "saint" is "hallow" — as in ...

In Japan, there’s a term for this phenomenon: tsundoku.

Pennies, “6-7,” and the Madness of Time Change Every so often, it’s good to give the mind a break from the heavy stuff and wander into lighter territory. This Friday feels like a good time for that. A ...

Nancy Walker Alexander passed away on October 31, 2025, after a long illness, surrounded by family. She was preceded in death by her parents, James Murray and ...

With the help of their community and a language app developer, two Indigenous teachers have brought Swinomish Lushootseed ...

Of 10,000 U.K. teachers surveyed, 50% reported hearing their students say "trash" or "garbage" instead of the more typical ...

Making English a compulsory subject from grade 1 is undeniably the right direction, but as a parent, the policy still brings ...

Four new educational bingo card sets are now available online to support first-grade English instruction through structured, game-based learning. The new resources focus on verbs, adjectives, nouns, ...

More than one‐third of the world's population uses a writing system that includes both uppercase and lowercase letter forms.

As Vietnam announced plans to make English a compulsory subject from grade 1, parents across the country rejoiced, seeing it ...

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And, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. Great! But first I have a question for you, Neil. The ...