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It'll take more than spelling to win this year's National Spelling Bee. The youngsters will have to know some definitions as well. For the first time, vocabulary will be a part of the Scripps National Spelling Bee when the competition is held next month near the nation's capital.

John Sutter says studies show kids who had preschool fare better on many fronts than kids who did not. Congress should support Obama's push for preschool for all kids.

Upping the educational value of what young kids watch on television may help improve their behavior, a new study suggests.

Goodbye candy bars and sports drinks. Hello baked chips and diet sodas....

A former teacher in Florida's Broward County who was accused of soliciting massages from students has lost her license to teach in the state.

A preschool teacher took away the toys in his classroom and was surprised to receive zero complaints.

A teacher is being criticized after having students use markers to draw on classmates who failed reading goals.

With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner - and that staple of American public education, the standardized test.

Harlem parents have been expressing frustration at the still limited number of high-quality choices in the city’s push to add charter schools in the neighborhood.

The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was painful and egregious, but also shows how student harassment of teachers and administrators has become more spiteful and damaging in the online era.