The National Spelling Bee began in 1925. The winning word that year was "gladiolus." (It's a type of flower.) There has been a tie in the bee three times: in 1950, 1957 and 1962. Two children who ...

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.

The Turtleback Education Foundation held its annual Spell-a-thon on Dec. 11, when students from transitional kindergarten through fifth grade took spelling tests.

Spelling bee whiz kids must now take vocabulary tests Kennyi Aouad, 11, of Terre Haute, Ind., bursts into laughter when asked to spell the word “sardoodledom” in Round 3 of the 2007 Scripps ...

Teasing fourth-grade teacher, Joey Dombrowski, decided yesterday to prank his students with a fake spelling test of made up words. In this hilarious video, Dombrowski asks the students to spell ...

"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.

WASHINGTON – In an effort to make it less likely that the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee will have co-champions for the fourth year in a row, bee organizers announced rules changes Tuesday ...

COLORED GIRL WINS BIG SPELLING BEE; Perfect Score in 500-Word Test at Opening of National Education Conference. ... This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, ...

Q. Why do so many of you teachers say these spelling tests are not important, yet you continue to give them every week. Not only that, why does my child have to write these unimportant words down ...

This 4th grade teacher got one over on his elementary students with a fake spelling test. ROYAL OAK, Michigan -- April Fools' Day is a day to play practical jokes on your friends and loved ones.

Lucky for us, the hilarious prank was captured on video, which Drombrowski shared on his personal Facebook page with the caption, “Gave a fake spelling test to the kids today as an early April ...

This 4th grade teacher got one over on his elementary students with a fake spelling test. ROYAL OAK, Michigan (KTRK) -- April Fools' Day is a day to play practical jokes on your friends and loved ...