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: ...

Can you master the vocabulary section of the Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminary test? Vocabulary accounts for 50 percent of a speller’s total score on the test, which determines who goes to the ...

To the National Spelling Bee adding a new challenge to its competiton. New tests are being administered starting this year that emphasize that contestants also know the meaning of words. The addition ...

John McWhorter is an associate professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. Spelling bees have always been cute. But they’re about to get cuter, because now they will ...

You don’t need to be a multilingual expert to have heard “nǐ hǎo” and "sayōnara" before. These sayings have become widely ...

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Graduating seniors can throw their flash cards on the celebratory bonfire next year. When students sit down to try their pencils at the redesigned SAT in spring 2016, the questions about vocabulary ...