America has moved to a toxic system for delivering spelling instruction in spite of an extensive and evolving body of research showing that direct and explicit spelling instruction is required for ...

Imagine you’re a school administrator. You’ve heard for two decades that spelling books are antique and wasteful spending. You believe that they are the same rote memorization workbook pages of the ...

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 ...