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 ...

When Houston ISD second-grader Zachary Teoh thinks of the word "bibliophile," he thinks of himself first. Then, he thinks about the building blocks—"biblio-," a Greek word meaning "book," and "-phile, ...

Bruhat Soma was just 7 years old when his parents began to notice that he had an unusual knack for memorizing things — words, numbers, entire Sanskrit verses known as slokas found in the Bhagavad Gita ...