Daily Item, a CNHI newspaper. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of The Tribune-Democrat. Pennsylvania students are about to join counterparts in more than two dozen states who will be ...

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 ...

Bringing cursive back into Florida classrooms provides many benefits for students beyond reading historical documents and good penmanship. Learning cursive helps develop cognitive skills and habits ...

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