I didn't make it past the first round of my third-grade spelling bee. Oh, sure, I had my revenge. I was school champion of ...

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered ... How does spelling go awry? Here, four common ways. 1. Borrowing words from other languages ...

Praneet Kumaravel spelled “brucellosis” correctly to beat 42 other contestants and win the junior division of the San Joaquin ...

I can still hear the refrain of "Ching Chang" chanted at me if I sit quietly enough. The feeling of being outcast stung most.

"There was a time when we would be so bored out of our minds that we would create our means of entertainment to escape it.

Above all, she was a people pleaser, a habit that followed her well into adulthood and proved hard to shake off, even when ...

The singer, 50, who has since been diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD, explained that learning disabilities were not understood ...

The younger the child (kindergarten through first grade), the better ... letters and sounds and spelling-sound correspondences; allows fluent phonologic decoding Sight word acquisition ...

N.R.: Opera is its own field. Paris and I have a long history with the orchestra. In third through sixth grade, we played ...

The province has begun early screening and pledged $30 million. Now it’s bumping up against the ‘reading wars.’ ...

Westlake, four students, two alumni and one parent have taken their own lives. The community grapples and grieves as it tries ...

Meetings in Dallas, where Cardinals are checking with interested teams on a few players, Post-Dispatch answered questions in ...