Ready for a really challenging quiz? Go take it if you dare, but brace yourself -- it’s tough: An adult spelling quiz: 5 of the hardest words in the English language It’s only five questions, but you ...

It’s high time we put the most enduring myths about human behavior to bed, and see the mind—and the world—as it is. Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio ...

It trumps word sorting alone, a single-strategy method popularly called “the word study method,” which fails to use a list of words that is adjusted for the instructional level of the speller and ...

As if spelling words like gyrocotylid and pohutukawa wasn't impossible enough, the Scripps National Spelling Bee added definitions to this year's contest, making you feel even more foolish than usual.