House Bill 127, proposed by State Rep. Toby Overdorf, a republican, would require Florida students to learn both reading and ...

Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought ...

While the next Legislative session is still a couple of months away, Florida lawmakers are already busy filing new bills that could become law.

Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, has refiled legislation aimed at requiring public elementary-school students to learn ...

Docusign redesigned its signatures for an era when fewer people write by hand. Libbie Bischoff didn’t set out to reinvent the ...

Charles Dickens’ famous “best of times, worst of times” opening line in “Tale of Two Cities” has been repeated almost to the point of banality. Still, it applies to the ...

The Fraser Get Together Club will hold their first meeting in October on Wednesday, the 8th, at 12 o’clock noon. Emily McLeran and Norma Brand are the hostesses. Lunch will be served before the ...

The post, which argued that cursive handwriting should continue to be taught in schools, garnered more than 500 comments. It's a touchy subject: Is there a reason schools should continue to teach ...

Baltimore County Public Schools hopes to reverse this trend locally with a pilot program to reintroduce cursive instruction to second- through fourth-grade classes in November. More than 20 elementary ...

Dear Heloise: I house-sit and clean for a number of clients, and I wanted to share some observations. The use of granite ...

Kate Wik, chief marketing officer of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, writes off criticism of the current “please come to Las Vegas” campaign as, “a few local loud voices” (Sept. 10 ...