A swirl of political, societal, technical, and practical currents converged to help a phenomenon—the “cellphone ban"—rise to prominence in 2024, making it Education Week’s word (or phrase) of the year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While December headlines the holiday season, it's also the month in which we reflect and enjoy some of the many year-end recaps.

The word “lesbian” is in an entirely different place at the end of 2024 than it was at the start. It’s certainly not new for people to embrace the label — The L Word premiered 20 years ago, after all ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American politics and society is Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year. That word is “polarization.” Defined as a “division ...