Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps with spellcheck.

Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio where fifth graders are learning to spell second-grade level words! What if these were your children? Would you ...

Spawned by the marketing divisions of big corporations, reading book companies have convinced some state school boards, superintendents, supervisors, principals, and other decision makers that they ...

Learn to spell that, dictionary. Eight brilliant children earned the right to coin the term after the Scripps National Spelling Bee ran out of words difficult enough to challenge them Thursday night, ...

Last night, at the end of the final round of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, a record eight students were still standing, having calmly rattled off the correct spellings of words like ...

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The Scripps National Spelling Bee has been testing kids' spelling since 1925. Words used to be much easier: in 1932, for example, the winning word was knack. Today, words have gotten a lot more ...