| These twins battled each other for 58 words in the final round of a spelling bee Posted: 12 Feb 2017 12:39 PM PST  Nothing like a little friendly competition among brothers. On Saturday, twins from Lincoln, Nebraska, found themselves in an epic battle to win the 30th annual Lincoln Public Schools Spelling Bee. As the Lincoln Star Journal reports, 12 year-olds Eswar and Sankar Ramamurthy found themselves in the final round — but had to go through 58 words before Eswar was eventually declared winner of the LPS Spelling Bee. SEE ALSO: Betsy DeVos' Department of Education misspells W.E.B. Du Bois' name, then misspells its apology The winning word? Farfalle. "We have farfalle pasta all the time," Eswar told the Journal. Looks like all that pasta paid off — Eswar was the first to spell two words correctly in a row. An hour of words like "lapidary" and "Hanseatic" landed him $100 in prize money, a dictionary and thesaurus. Eswar will also head to Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., this May. "It was anybody's game until the very end," Bhuvana Gopal, mother of the Lux Middle School sixth graders, said. "I know that they are equally capable and they work equally hard. Either of them could have done it." "This is not something that happened overnight; they've been doing this for years now. They put in a lot of work and it's paid off," she explained. The brothers competed against each other at last year's spelling bee as well. After correctly spelling "Byzantine," Eswar took home the title then, and Sankar landed in third place. C-o-n-g-r-a-t-s to the Ramamurthy family! BONUS: These scientists are proving Einstein wrong
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| Dept. of Education apologizes for misspelling W.E.B. Du Bois Posted: 12 Feb 2017 10:18 AM PST  The U.S. Department of Education apologized Sunday for a tweet that misspelled the name of W.E.B. Du Bois while quoting the late writer, historian and civil rights activist.
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| Swimsuit costs cause stir at Chicago-area school district Posted: 11 Feb 2017 08:36 PM PST FRANKFORT, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has scrutinized the cost of swimsuits for physical education classes at a suburban Chicago school district, alleging discrimination because female students were charged more for the suits than male students. |
