A fierce rivalry between four scholars ignited a race to crack the world’s oldest writing, unlocking the secrets of Mesopotamia after millennia of silence.

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth ...

But, under the standards, schools are not explicitly required to ensure that students can read and comprehend it, and it does not require schools to give any cursive writing exams. So, this ...

technology to read old handwriting in more languages and improve its ability to suggest lineage-linked data from records,” the organization says in a recent news release. Interested? There is a ...

The title Skibidi Ohio Brain Rot is a playful artifact of modern slang. Skibidi nods to a viral internet phenomenon, Ohio ...

We’re surrounded by books. It’s inevitable, since my husband and I are old English majors who regularly add, but seldom subtract, from our collection. More books were added during post-doc study, and ...

“One of the times it really got to me was when I was looking through an old arrest report ... Core State Standards for English initiative did not include cursive in the curriculum.

We’ve compiled a list of cheeky English words, some of which are so old that they don’t even ... Avoid using these words in formal writing, but send this list to your friends for a good ...

A decade on from Billie Eilish debuting with "Ocean Eyes" — and two decades since CocoRosie — the highly divisive "indie ...