Last week students in Oregon got a heck of a message from their state school board. They no longer need to learn to spell when a computer can do it for them. From now on, seventh-graders and ...

Q: My daughter is only in first grade. The spelling words that she is being tested on appear to be at a very high level. Whatever happened to having children spell words like "the," "dog," "that" and ...

Learning to spell is more than just learning by rote, and requires a sophisticated understanding of patterns, symbols and sequences; indeed spelling is mathematical in thought. Teaching your child to ...

When they face off at the annual Howard County Spelling Bee Friday, March 8, students will not have access to electronic spell checkers, those ubiquitous online programs that flag misspelled words.

Recently I have found myself navigating my days like a nonstop spelling bee. Ever since watching the PBS Kids show Word World and becoming entirely addicted to it, my 3-year-old son has a voracious ...

Tech tools that correct spelling may be convenient, but they can mask a serious problem. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Constantine Johnny / Moment / SeventyFour / iStock / Getty If you know ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Can you spell “centipede?” That’s the word that helped 4th grade Barack Obama Elementary School student Prince-Albert Hudson, IV become the Richmond Public Schools 2020 Spelling Bee ...

The recent article by Chronicle reporter Ericka Mellon about how schools are dropping weekly spelling tests in favor of teaching methods that focus less on memorization and more on understanding why ...