We are excited to announce an exciting update to our sister-site: SpellingCity.com.  Although it will be keeping the same URL, Spelling City has expanded to become Vocabulary and Spelling City!! Vocabulary and SpellingCity not only features sentences for each of their  42,000+ words, they also now feature vocabulary content, including definitions, parts of speech, synonyms [...]

The second semester of each school year often brings together students nationwide in a common foreboding: the knowledge that standardized tests will soon be upon them.  For elementary and middle school students, this usually means some type of basic reading and math assessment, and possibly science and social studies assessments, as well.  For high school [...]

American school students have been making the news in recent weeks – – but not necessarily for the right reasons.  Some educational analysts are concerned after the most recent release of the PISA results.  The PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) compares literacy in math, reading, and science from a sample of 15-year-old school students [...]

Okay, admit it.  The winter holidays have some of the most fun and interesting words in the English language.  Yule.  Dreidel.  Mistletoe.  Kinara.  Advent.  Eggnog. You can hardly say them without a smile coming to your face.  I don’t know if it is because they aren’t “worn out” like the words we use for twelve [...]