Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The middle school students preparing for the regional WITF Central PA Spelling Bee collect obscure words the way most teens add songs to their iPods. In a day when spellcheck and texting abbreviations ...

“The important thing to know about spelling is that it’s not just rote memorization,” says Ananya Vinay, champion of the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee, who will ceremonially open this year’s bee ...

Robin Roper can. The Severn River Middle School student is ready to face-off in this year’s Scripps National Spelling Bee. “I gradually got better at the school bee cause I could compete for 3 years, ...

OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - Spelling savants traced letters onto their palms or gazed at the ceiling on Wednesday while racking their brains in hopes of advancing to the next level of the Scripps ...

Henry Breneman Stewart hopes the old adage that things are better the second time around will prove true this week. With his vocabulary filled with thousands of new words and a host of improved ...

When Laiba Ali was in the fourth grade she came home from school with some exciting news for her mom: She won the class spelling bee. Her mother, Shahla Ali was in her residency in medical school at ...