About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

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Spelling coach Scott Remer has 27 students competing in the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee. One was the runner-up last year.

WESTLAKE, Ohio - A local sixth grader has earned Highest Honors in the 2024-2025 WordMasters ChallengeTM—a national vocabulary competition involving nearly 125,000 students annually.

This highlights the challenge of ensuring that students develop a robust vocabulary by the time they reach ninth grade. To address this, we can implement key vocabulary instructional strategies that ...

The Word of the Day: Ineffable was explored, meaning something too great to be expressed in words. Language is a powerful tool that shapes the way we communicate, think, and connect with others.

Education Education Atlanta tops the nation with major 4th grade reading gains. This program could be why Atlanta school leaders plan to expand reading program to its middle schools.

Kendrick Lamar used a word in first grade that should have been far beyond his vocabulary. The 37-year-old rapper, whose full name is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, is known for his word use that more ...

Study with the Daily Vocabulary Words provided on Bankersadda to learn new words daily. The process of learning any new word should also include learning its antonym and synonyms, this way each time ...

So there’s a positive correlation between a student’s vocabulary size in grade 12, the likelihood that she will graduate from college, and her future level of income. The reason is clear: vocabulary ...

Of the 9,675 audible words he used, 601 were considered complex, by Flesch-Kincaid Grade standards or readability. This represents 6.2% of all the words the former US president used during the ...