According to Yore, the NAPLAN model of assessment cannot assimilate these qualitative measures of progress. “When it comes to assessing student outcomes on a national scale,” he says, “there is the ...

If you're OK with that, you can spend hours with a nifty tool from NASA: Spell out any name using real satellite images from ...

A Russian peasant With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening ...

NASA's Landsat Science even allows you to see where in the world each "letter" is located. Here's how we spent our morning. We tried it out with Florida and found satellite images spelling the name of ...

If you’ve ever said “for all intensive purposes” or “ex cetera” with confidence, this gallery is for you—and also gently ...

When it comes to spelling bees, preparation is everything. Just ask 13-year-old Brighid Reid of Somonauk Middle School, the ...

Her reaction to the children spelling the word “difficulty” always makes me laugh. This is not to say I support her tyrannical ways, but rereading Matilda as an adult has allowed me to ...

The Eternal Pillars Memorial reaches imperiously upwards with letters on the top of the columns spelling the words Am Yisrael Chai – the people of Israel live. Fluttering heavenward, those letters ...