In a classroom 7,903 miles from home, Dorina Ramos counts down from five. “Five,” Ramos says in her clear and practiced ...

These are not isolated stories. Across public classrooms in the Philippines, many students cannot read fluently, comprehend meaningfully, or write coherently, even after a decade in school. When words ...

The results are in from the first preliminary round of the 100th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, and two Pacific ...

A middle school student from Concord is in the finals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee ... Kallakuri is an eighth-grade student at Valor Preparatory Academy in Concord.

She came close to winning and decided to get “a lot more serious” to bolster her spelling talent. She studied words, won the school bee in fourth grade at ... spelling her second word in ...

DULUTH — An Ordean East Middle School student placed in the top 60 contestants at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. Eighth-grader Gemma Kim, 14, was one of nine ...

Quint says he is not only excited about going back to the competition for the second time, but he is also excited to see some friends he met last year.

Kallakuri is an eighth-grade student at Valor Preparatory Academy in Concord. If she wins the 2025 competition, Kallakuri would be the first speller from North Carolina to do so since 1970, when Libby ...

The official source for the Spelling Bee is Merriam-Webster Unabridged. The competition began 100 years ago. It was canceled, however, four times, between 1943 and 1945 because of the Second World ...

(AP) — Faizan Zaki’s enthusiasm for spelling nearly got the better of ... He’s 14 and in the eighth grade, which means he has aged out of the competition. It’s not a bad way to go out ...