For the first two centuries of American education, spelling was the backbone of reading instruction. At a time when teachers had relatively little formal training and few tools besides a blackboard ...

Teaching spelling and grammar in schools has become "a bit unnecessary" because children can correct errors on their mobile phones, a top academic has claimed. Sugata Mitra, professor of educational ...

Adults may wince at painful childhood memories of penmanship lessons and spelling tests. A small but growing number of studies, though, suggest that systematically teaching handwriting and spelling ...