LANSING, MI – State Rep. Brenda Carter held up a letter from her late son, Brian, who wrote when he was 9 years old that he wanted to be a police officer. Brian grew up to be an Army veteran, the ...
After her son died, State Rep. Brenda Carter (D-Pontiac) was sorting through some of the things that her son left behind, besides a whole lot of broken hearts, and came across a letter that he had ...
As schools in Northeast Pennsylvania cut back on teaching cursive handwriting, the Lackawanna County Children’s Library will focus on both reading and writing the style of penmanship. Starting in ...
Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...
Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this installment, we look at the power of the written word. Common Core ...
It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...
Across the country, schools are no longer teaching cursive writing. We asked members of the Times-Union Email Interactive Group whether this is a wise move. Here is a representative sampling of the ...
Cursive Logic, a new method to teach cursive writing, was developed by Prisca LeCroy and her mother, Linda Shrewsbury. (Ron Baselice/The Dallas Morning News) While tutoring a 23-year-old man in ...