The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting new ...

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Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Among the staff at Topgolf, 11th-grader Augustine Fredericks has a rare and coveted skill. When a customer orders a celebratory dessert, the teenager is often summoned to pipe a fancy “happy birthday” ...

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Remember spending hours in school learning things your teacher swore you would use every single day? Some of those lessons ...

Louisiana students will soon benefit from new English language arts (ELA) standards that further reinforce the fundamentals ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

A bill requiring cursive instruction and proficiency standards in Florida schools is awaiting the governor's signature. Advocates argue that learning cursive improves spelling, writing fluency, and ...

Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback in schools for students of the Gen Alpha generation (born between 2010 and 2025). New Jersey and Pennsylvania are the most recent in a growing number of ...

North Attleborough man convicted in fatal stabbing sentenced to 30 years A North Attleborough man convicted of fatally stabbing a man outside a bar in Providence in 2010 was sentenced to prison on ...