I’m a compulsive, obsessive newspaper reader. I read all the obits, the police log and even in the winter when garage doors are sealed, I look for garage sale ads. This particular morning one item ...

The death of cursive has been greatly exaggerated. On Wednesday, five Cobb County elementary schools were recognized for ...

Editor’s note: Editor Brenda Linert is on vacation this week. This “From the editor’s desk” column was first published in 2015. My newspaper recently published a story by education reporter Margaret ...

A bill that would require elementary school students in New Jersey to learn how to read and write cursive has gained the backing of state Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin. “Great idea,” Coughlin, ...

Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap has ...

Cursive writing is going the way of the floppy disc, photographic film and cassette tapes, we said. Whoa - not so fast, you responded. Two state lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring school ...

State lawmakers who oversee North Carolina's public schools think the two low-performing virtual charter schools should be allowed to remain open for four more years and that elementary schools must ...

FAIRVIEW, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- It's a long way off, but a little boy from the Garden State may want to put his new award and national title on his college application forms. As CBS2's Ali Bauman ...