After reading Pete Pichaske’s article (“A new way to teach spelling,” March 7), I felt spurred on to reframe the issue of mathematical literacy. Ineffective teaching strategies for spelling have also ...

Seven-year-old Alayna Gifford and a few of her classmates were seated in a semicircle on the floor at Waterloo Elementary School. “OK, Alayna, your turn,” said teacher Staphanie Yonowitz, who is ...

No longer do students bring home that list of words every Monday to memorize for a test Friday as did their parents, grandparents and even older brothers and sisters. The words are still spelled the ...

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 ...

The games will run in association with the Times, in a deal brokered by Universal McCann London and will launch on Times Online today (26 January). One is called Mini Bees, which aims to promote the ...

Positioned as showdowns, smack-downs or friendly competitions, spelling bees have a long and storied past in the United States. The earliest spelling contest on record dates back to 1808 and was ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original here. A couple of years ago, early one morning, I received an SMS advising “resadents to stay indoors ...

If ur a stikkla 4 good spelling, u may not wish to read on. A leading academic has said we should stop worrying that 'textmessage speak' is creeping into general usage. John Wells, president of the ...