Think your inner editor is up to the task? This quiz will put it to the ultimate test. We’ve mixed tricky grammar traps, ...

The Scripps National Spelling Bee will kick off on May 28 as 245 spellers descend on National Harbor, Maryland, for four days of competition. Ahead of the event, a word selection panel gathers to ...

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At the risk of being labeled curmudgeons (that's spelled “c-u-r-m-u-d-g-e-o-n-s,” by the way) we take exception to the trend in some area school districts to do away with traditional spelling tests in ...

John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Spelling bees have always been cute. But they’re about to get cuter, because now they will ...

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 ...