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To bee, or not to bee, has now become a tougher question to answer -- even for whiz kid spellers. The Scripps National Spelling Bee has announced that it is changing the format of its annual ...

Vocabulary will count for 50%25 of a speller%27s overall score A %22significant change%22 in the Bee%27s 86-year history The 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee takes place May 28 to 30 in Oxon Hill%2C ...

As is now well-known, scores on “intelligence” tests rose strongly over the last few generations, world-wide—this is the “Flynn Effect.” One striking anomaly, however, appears in American data: ...

Ready for a test? A research study with an online vocabulary test for people in the Netherlands went viral after nationwide television coverage. In the weekend after the TV exposure, more than 300,000 ...

Having a large vocabulary is certainly helpful. It can impress a potential employer, or it can greatly aid you in your line of work if you’re a writer. If you’re a student, it could give you some ...

U.S. students missed large numbers of words they were expected to know on a new vocabulary section of a national exam, in the latest evidence of severe shortcomings in the nation's reading education.

As American kids head back to school, they’re likely to return home with an alien language their own parents may find befuddling. From TikTok to the kitchen table, words like “rizzler” and “skibidi” ...