New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...

When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...

We need cursive in classrooms to preserve civic literacy for future generations. | Opinion ...

These states join about two dozen others that require cursive instruction, marking another victory in the war against Chromebooks and their pesky keyboards. Everyone seems happy about this development ...

Lightning struck in New Jersey on Gov. Phil Murphy's final day in office. Progressives and conservatives alike jointly celebrated his signing S1783/A3865 into law, requiring that public schools teach ...

Education has been criticized in recent years — decades, really — for not teaching children how to think so much as teaching ...

Noon; Leominster Eagles #477, 456 Litchfield St., Leominster. Local cooks will compete for Chef’s Award, Judge’s Awards and People’s Choice honors, with soups ...

Let’s address the elephant in the room right away: a place called Heid’s in Liverpool, New York, has no business making a Philly cheesesteak this good. It’s like discovering your dentist makes the ...

Sculptures and tools from the Stone Age show markings that could be an early precursor to written language, according to a new analysis.

Over 40,000 years ago, our early ancestors were already carving signs into tools and sculptures. According to a new analysis ...

Mysterious signs engraved on objects reveal that a form of proto-writing may have been used in Europe 40,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years before the emergence of a full writing system ...