Alma "Algy" Oustatcher enjoyed her 108th birthday party along with an extended family that included 14 great-grandchildren.

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words— mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Writing by hand strengthens memory, improves spelling and helps build a deeper understanding of a language, making it a ...

Idaho Governor Brad Little signed a bill into law on Wednesday that will require students in Idaho to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade.

Lawmakers are finally moving to change the way student achievement has been measured in Wisconsin schools. They passed a bill requiring the state Department of Public Instruction to return to […] ...

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in ...

There are bills to further restrict kids' cell phone use in schools and to require cursive instruction for younger students.

A decade on from Billie Eilish debuting with "Ocean Eyes" — and two decades since CocoRosie — the highly divisive "indie ...

Readers react to the Trump administration’s suppression of words in government documents. Also: Bullied Republicans; Iran’s ...

As part of the latest Legislative kerfuffle, a couple of new bills aim to bring required topics into the classroom.

The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee unanimously advanced a bill 17-0 on Tuesday that would require cursive handwriting instruction in schools for st ...

A new Florida bill would require some elementary school students to learn cursive writing. The bill, HB 921, would require all public schools to provide cursive writing ...