Tara Heshka told Newsweek she usually skim-reads her daughter's tests but was caught off guard by what her 9-year-old had written.

A creative fourth grader in Canada goes viral after putting a playful twist on a spelling test, sparking praise from ...

An age-old staple of elementary school — the weekly spelling test — is disappearing from some classrooms. Causing confusion among parents, a growing number of schools are ditching tradition for a ...

This week, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories ...

ASKED WHY? THE PENN MANOR SCHOOL DISTRICT RECENTLY ANNOUNCED TRADITION SPELLING TESTS WILL SOON BE A THING OF THE PAST. PROBABLY WHAT A LOT OF US REMEMBER. SO PRETEST PRACTICE THE WORDS ALL WEEK.

Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio where fifth graders are learning to spell second-grade level words! What if these were your children? Would you ...

How many can you get right? No peeking at a dictionary for this surprisingly tricky 4th grade spelling words quiz. Remember those 4th grade spelling words quizzes we took in elementary school? They ...

The Oxford English Dictionary estimates there are over 170,000 words in the English language, with an additional 47,000 obsolete words. Only a few other languages reportedly have more words than the ...

Are spelling tests really necessary? Not in the affluent Solon City Schools in Ohio where fifth graders are learning to spell second-grade level words! What if these were your children? Would you ...

A new "encrypted spelling test" on Playbuzz is stumping the internet. The quiz replaces letters with numbers and challenges people to choose the correct spelling of words. There are no trick questions ...