I got a letter. A real letter. The kind that comes in an envelope with a stamp and a hand-written address in pretty cursive. I waved it at my coworkers. My heart leaps when I see an envelope ...

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In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

University of Iowa provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t ...