Researchers from the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at The University of Chicago evaluated the effectiveness of the Big Word Club (BWC), a web-based program of activities intended to help elementary school-aged children learn new vocabulary words by introducing one new word per day throughout the school year.
The minute we realized that if Big Word Club was going to be successful and help the millions of kids we envision helping, we knew we needed to get the evidence that proved it works.
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