Duaa qualified for the national bee by correctly spelling the word "droshky," a public carriage used in Russia.

A fifth grader from Lee's Summit is one of 243 competitors in this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. She's been studying ...

On Tuesday, the young contestants will have to spell a word and answer a vocabulary question to advance to the next round.

Krrisha Agrawal, 10, a fifth grader at Woodland Hill Montessori School in North Greenbush, will be competing in next week's Scripps National Spelling Bee ... etymology and learning the patterns ...

The bee winner in 1991 at age 13, Lagatta nonetheless struggled adjusting to life outside her rural hometown of Clintonville, Wisconsin — until she got a push from a professor who was a devoted ...

The big story: The ongoing effort to turn Florida’s higher education system in a new conservative direction took another step ...

An eighth-grader from San Diego County will be competing in the 97th annual Scripps National Spelling Bee near the nation’s capital after being crowned the local champion in March.

The best young spellers in the English language are set to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held in 1925 ...

Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Before then, the Scripps Bee pronouncers who bestowed tricky words ...