In the Anchorage School District, a recently-introduced curriculum for young students learning to read is making a major ...

150 Big Words That Will Make You Sound Fancy and Smart—and What They Mean originally appeared on Parade.

For 9-year-old Aadhya Adhikari, a fourth-grade student at Veritas Classical Academy, her self-proclaimed love for words ...

Fairfax County eighth-grader Nargiza Muzhapaer reached the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Wednesday and ...

Only by writing could the acclaimed novelist Yiyun Li grapple with the suicides of her two sons. But her new book is no ...

In a world obsessed with clarity and solutions, the best short stories remind us that it’s okay to be ... If you’ve ever been at a loss for words, these eight stories find them for you. Miranda July’s ...

Apologies are often described as "cheap talk"—anyone can say they're sorry, regardless of how they actually feel. But apologies work. Research shows that people feel better and are more likely ...

Everybody just has to live the standards, improve, and we know that the margin will be very small, very short again. I feel that we can do it, that's it. I don't judge that, and I'm not. There are two ...

The Wild Atlantic Words short story competition is jointly sponsored by Bridge St bar and Mayo Books Press, with a first prize of €500, and second prize, €250. A reading and prize-giving ceremony will ...