A postal clerk who can’t read cursive, millions of misread letters and a “lost generation” of students: Michael Reagan links ...

New York – The U.S. stock market rallied on Monday, at the start of a week with shortened trading because of the Thanksgiving holiday. The S&P 500 climbed 1.5% for one of its best days since the ...

The Ural owl is a large, pale-faced owl native to the forests of Europe and northern Asia. With its round head, piercing black eyes, and silent flight, it is an efficient nighttime hunter. Feeding ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — If you want to understand how separated our world has become, look no further than the way we write, clean, printed letters stranded on the page, spaced like islands. But inside one ...

The animal kingdom is full of fascinating creatures, and some of the most intriguing among them begin with the letter ‘U’. From ocean-dwelling giants to tiny insects that shape ecosystems, these ...

Elementary-school students would have to learn how to write in cursive, under a bill set to be vetted by a House committee next week. Sen. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, filed a similar proposal (SB 444) ...

Sherisse Kenerson stood in the front of her classroom Thursday afternoon at Holmes Middle School in Lincolnia, Virginia, and explained how to write the letters “M” and “N” in cursive. Then, she had ...

A version of this article first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on April 11, 2004. The folklore is that the hillside letters found in the American West were created to help early 20th-century ...

SALT LAKE CITY — While the rivalry between BYU and the University of Utah has a lot of people claiming one school's dominance over the other, there's just no topping the "Block U." I spoke with U of U ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In an age when students are often working on computers, typing up essays and homework instead of writing them out, the art of cursive writing may feel like a relic of the past.

Libbie Bischoff didn’t set out to reinvent the signature. Really, she was just flipping through a vintage knitting magazine from the 1950s. The Minneapolis-based type designer collects the mags, ...