There’s a word UC Berkeley comparative literature Ph.D. student Frank Cahill will never forget. He misspelled it as an eighth grader in the second round of the live televised Scripps National Spelling ...

Superior eighth grader Blanche Li was a third grader when she competed in her first school spelling bee. She came close to winning and decided to get “a lot more serious” to bolster her spelling ...

Bruhat Soma made spelling look easy at the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Not a single word slipped past him in 14 rounds. And then came his record-setting spell-off. The seventh grader from St.

Whatever you were doing in eighth grade probably pales in comparison to Zaila Avant-garde's laundry list of accomplishments. The 14-year-old Louisiana native became Scripps National Spelling Bee's ...

How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school? They ...

My 10-year-old daughter Clara shifted nervously as she sat on stage waiting her turn in her elementary school’s spelling bee this January. Most of the fourth- and ...

It’s a day ending in “y,” so naturally someone did something racist at a school in this country. Suggested Reading Louisiana Town Suffers Massive Oil Explosion, But That’s Not the Only Bad News Black ...

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 ...