More than 500 elementary school students received new copies of the dictionary last week in California.
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports that the Rotary Club of Romana distributed the books to every third-grader in one school district. It was the eighth straight year that the organization had donated dictionaries to kids.
The news provider reports that many teachers in the school district have lessons based on the use of a dictionary, so many educators have begun implementing those lessons after the club's visit. The group also passed out copies of Spanish-to-English dictionaries because about 25 percent of the third-graders are learning English as their second language.
The company Babylon, which provides language learning, translation and single-click dictionary software, recently announced that it will donate its educational material to every K-12 school in the U.S. The dictionary and translation program allows students to access over 1,500 sources in 75 different languages.
Material from publishing houses such as Merriam Webster, Oxford and Britannica will be available through the initiative "Babylon in Every School."
"Our solutions bridge the gap of languages for more than 80 million people worldwide," said Alon Carmeli, Babylon's CEO.
