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Bringing cursive back into Florida classrooms provides many benefits for students beyond reading historical documents and good penmanship.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 ...

NYC boasts many eateries with authentic cuisine from around the world. Even among stiff competition, this Thai restaurant ...

Thousands of markings on objects made around 40,000 years ago may have been more than just doodles, a new analysis suggests ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon ...

Generation Z, also known as Zoomers, get a bad reputation for being tech-obsessed. In reality, many of the old-fashioned ...

I explain how to recite the alphabet backwards step by step.

The flow of motion from putting pencil to paper and writing in cursive strengthens cognitive development and fosters fine ...

From navigating with paper maps to making change without a calculator, the practical skills that were second nature to every ...

A recently passed law will require PA schools to add cursive writing, joined italics, and printing to their curricula beginning April 12.