ANN ARBOR, MI -- The Family Learning Institute, which provides free tutoring to approximately 150 young local students each year, will hold its 11th Annual Spelling Bee on May 5. A silent auction ...

Akeelah Anderson can spell. She can spell better than anyone in her school in South Central Los Angeles, and she might have a chance at the nationals. Who can say? She sees the national spelling bee ...

Readin’ and writin’ and ‘rithmetic, the old school thought of— school. My how times have changed! Understanding the progression of education certainly cannot be explained in one little article. But, ...

Want a spelling be champion in your family? Then use these tips to help your child learn to spell with the best of them. There is a certain electric magic that comes with the National Spelling Bee. It ...

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 ...

We examined whether the overlapping waves model, originally developed to account for strategy choices in arithmetic, could also account for strategy choices in spelling. The contrast was of particular ...

Abilene school children can say goodbye to Friday spelling tests — the kind that once had them writing “cat” ten times at the kitchen table. District leaders say that practice is on its way out, ...

Learning Disability Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Summer, 2002), pp. 209-222 (14 pages) This study examined the effectiveness of a training procedure designed to teach a special education resource ...

Cris Brack is a Senior Fellow of The Higher Education Academy. He does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, ...