Guest columnist Weston Kincade has been teaching middle and high school English since 2005. He currently teaches at Akron Digital Academy, a hybrid high school utilizing both traditional classroom ...

State Superintendent Richard Woods awarded Byron elementary with a proficiency ribbon, for at least 90% of their students ...

Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Every Monday we would crack the spine of our “Handwriting Without Tears” workbooks, an artifact of ...

As STEM subjects — those that are part of science, technology, engineering and math — and other computer-based skills have become priorities for schools, cursive has become a relic, like handwritten ...

A few months ago I began reading a packet of letters from the Great Depression. They were handwritten in cursive by Ruth Cross, a native Texan who borrowed and bartered her way into building a country ...

The new state requirement that Louisiana schools teach cursive has us scratching our heads. The requirement, Senate Bill 275, was enacted in 2016 with implementation deferred to July 1 of this year.