After a decade-long absence, cursive writing is returning to Georgia classrooms, teaching students practical handwriting ...

Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, has refiled legislation aimed at requiring public elementary-school students to learn ...

House Bill 127, proposed by State Rep. Toby Overdorf, a republican, would require Florida students to learn both reading and ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

While the next Legislative session is still a couple of months away, Florida lawmakers are already busy filing new bills that could become law.

BALTIMORE -- What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of ...

The death of cursive has been greatly exaggerated. On Wednesday, five Cobb County elementary schools were recognized for ...

Ellen Poulson and her friend, Carmen Doubleday, are meeting for the first time. Doubleday, a third grader at Lineweaver Elementary School, hands Poulson, 92, an origami cat that Doubleday made of ...

THOMASVILLE — State Superintendent Richard Woods continued his tour of South Georgia on Tuesday morning, presenting another John Hancock Banner. Thomas County’s Cross Creek Elementary School was ...

Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought ...

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