This month, I went to school for parent-teacher conferences. My second-grader’s self-evaluation form listed several categories: “I follow directions,” “I understand math,” “I like to read,” and one we ...

Q: My daughter is only in first grade. The spelling words that she is being tested on appear to be at a very high level. Whatever happened to having children spell words like "the," "dog," "that" and ...

Commentary: We are losing something important when schools move away from the basics, letting technology fill in the gaps ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In a world of spell-checking devices and texting abbreviations, one researcher says learning to spell is as important as ever – and more ...

Debora Valcan, Deborah Pino Pasternak, and Susan Ledger do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have ...