Here’s a true Christmas story starring the U.S. Postal Service and Santa Claus. Earlier this week, my wife Colleen went to our local post office in Los Angeles to mail a present to her relatives ...

Midway Hills Academy had a very special visitor last week as the Honorable Floyd L. Griffin, Jr., former Mayor of Milledgeville, state Senator, U.S. Army Colonel, and lifelong public servant, returned ...

Just like writing cursive, it seems that reading an old-school analog clock is the sort of skill that has fallen by the wayside in our smartphone age. That lapse was revealed when NYC public schools ...

As Illinois rolls out a new law requiring early literacy screenings beginning Jan. 1, some educators question whether it will ...

Classrooms have changed with the aid of new technology. Many once commonplace activities are now all but gone. These are several of the classic classroom activities that only Baby Boomers will ...

Yoonchae, Daniela, and Sophia are the only three members of KATSEYE without tattoos — but that might change soon. During a ...

Here are seven artists — painters, sculptors, a photographer and a papermaker — whose work stood out in the group shows we covered this year.

With the announcement that the last letter of Mary, Queen of Scots is to go on display at Perth Museum next year, Herald columnist Rosemary ...

Next up was cursive handwriting, which she called a “lost art.” The teacher then raised the alarm that students don’t have any important phone numbers memorized and she said ...

Forget cursive. Statistically, given the sad state of our government schools, he’s lucky he can read at all. As is well known, and has been reported in the media for decades, more than half of all ...

From literacy, New Orleans after Katrina and special ed for all to freedom of speech and teachers who gave up, what our op-ed ...

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