prompting concerns about grade inflation. Students should be assessed on spelling, punctuation and grammar in order to maintain quality and protect standards, the watchdog urged in its report ...

A middle school student from Concord is in the finals of the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. Aishwarya Kallakuri, 14, ...

He won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in June. I never expected to win. I had lost more than two dozen spelling bees since I started competing in the fourth grade, and last year, I didn’t ...

To compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, spellers must not have passed beyond eighth grade or reached their 15th birthday. Nupur Lala won the 1999 spelling bee with the word "logorrhea ...