If you want to spend less money on special education, test prep, and remediation, buy spelling books and motivate kids to read more. Reclaim these students who are failing as readers.

Hicks wrote a book about spelling that described the teaching methods that led to Cleveland's victory. He ended up moving to Wisconsin, where he became a state education official and died in 1967 ...

"I go through her test and she is spelling all the words correctly. I never felt so proud. But then, it hits me. The very last word, which is always a 'challenge word,' is spelled wrong.

BEELINE What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’s New Path to Success By Shalini Shankar In the rarefied world of the National Spelling Bee , Chetan Reddy was not unusual. Like other top ...

The cover of "Enough is Enuf" and author Gabe Henry. (Courtesy of Harper Collins and Gabe Henry) Ever since America was founded, there have been attempts to simplify how English is written.

THE CLASSROOM — Ah, the spelling test, the classic grind of the grade school classroom. It probably didn't matter what kind of student you were, they likely brought some stress into your life.

Especially since a new test of spelling, punctuation and grammar was introduced by the Department for Education last year, as a new component of the national curriculum SATS tests.

Imagine you’re a school administrator. You’ve heard for two decades that spelling books are antique and wasteful spending. You believe that they are the same rote memorization workbook pages ...