For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In reference to The Times Record article published on April 18, 2025 ...

When the people writing and supporting the legislation being enacted don’t see the red flags, it’s little wonder ethics reform is slow. I recently read the editorial urging Springfield to help ...

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance continue to make noise about taking over Greenland while suggesting that the Greenlanders should vote for it. I’ll predict right now that the Greenlanders will never ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

The family of Virginia Giuffre has released her final handwritten letter, days after the sexual abuse survivor died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, who claimed she was groomed and trafficked by Ghislaine ...

Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine. By New Statesman As a Catholic, I was most interested to read Finn McRedmond’s Newsmaker (25 April) on ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Trump administration on Monday dismissed all of the scientists working on the newest version of the National Climate Assessment, a sweeping report that outlines the growing ...

However, the letters are fake. An attack took place in Pahalgam, a tourist hotspot in India-occupied Kashmir that draws thousands of visitors every summer, on April 22. Gunmen opened fire on ...