A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't happy ...

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

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Readers respond to a guest essay about the methods and reliability of science. Also: Opioid addiction; judges and presidents; ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

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I heard fingers tapping on a celeste and a bass note vibrating, then a lyric about restlessness hushed into me by Lou Reed —a boy from Freeport who got his start writing doo-wah-ditties for Pickwick ...

Researchers traced a tomahawk-scarred skull to the stockade attack; Union College plans a respectful burial.

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Born on December 4, 1882, Jean MacCallum was Daisy and Alexander MacCallum’s second child. The family moved to San Francisco ...