That was the winning word for Lindsey Jessen, a sixth-grader from Marion, at the 42nd Annual Dispatch-Argus Regional Spelling Bee. Lindsey outlasted 39 other participants in the event Saturday at ...

Want to help your sixth-grader master reading and writing? Here are some of the skills your sixth-grader will be learning in the classroom. Cite evidence to explain what a story, play, poem, or ...

The words on sixth-grade teacher Donna Teubner’s chalkboard said it all: “ferocious,” “evacuate” and “dangerous.” Her students needed a little help spelling those words but no help using them to ...

Last call has changed since grad school. The Boy won the spelling bee in his class, so he advanced to the school championships, which were on Friday night. Each class sent its champion, grades four ...

Middle school is tough. Bodies change. Hormones rage. Algebra becomes a reality. But there are things schools can do to make life easier for students — like this big study we wrote about showing that ...

Plainfield Public Schools plans an expansion of the 6th grade at Plainfield Academy for the Arts and Advanced Studies (PAAAS) and F.W. Cook Elementary School. The new 6th grade program at PAAAS will ...