Where a typical English classroom might display classics like “The Great Gatsby” or “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Scott Hertzog’s Penn Manor High School classroom features a poster of “Captain America,” ...

Before her death last May at the age of 82, the late columnist and Springfield school counselor Harriette N. Michaels wrote an article on what it was like to grow up during the hardships of the Great ...

Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Handwriting matters – does cursive? Research ...

In his column “Time to embrace cursive again” (Feb. 4, TribLIVE), Tom Purcell writes: “Because ink dripped when the quill was lifted from the paper, it made sense to connect letters in words together ...

I write in cursive. I’m sorry to all my classmates who had to partner with me for physical worksheets for making our assignments half illegible to them. When I was in the third grade, I was taught ...

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 ...