Real patriotic education means that just as our founders loved and honored America, so we should honor them, while deeply learning and earnestly debating their ideas. Adapted from remarks delivered by ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

During one of my last visits with my mom, Terry took a photo that I treasure. We stopped by my mother’s group home in ...

It’s not pronounced /wuh/, like the whispering sound the letter brings to words like whale and wonder. W’s name isn’t tied to its sound at all—it’s a historical nod to its origins. So how did this ...

Celebrating Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and a century of literature and journalism at The New Yorker.

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Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

A bill to integrate cursive writing into exams for elementary school students won’t be receiving a signature from Gov. Ron DeSantis after it failed to get through the Legislature.

Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive handwriting.

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...