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Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive ...
Scott and Tozzi won titles at the Ohio High School Athletic Association's 7th-8th Grade State Track and Field Meet on May 17 at Hilliard Darby High School. Scott recorded wins in the boys 800 and ...
DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — Decatur Public Schools confirmed that an "altercation" involving both students and parents disrupted an eighth grade promotion ceremony. WAND first reported a large police ...
(The Conversation) — 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 read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to ...
Act 602 requires ballot titles be at no higher than an eighth grade reading level. That’s determined by running text through the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level Readability Test, designed by the Navy ...
MANILA, Philippines — The stabbing of two more Grade 8 students in Las Piñas by three other minors outside of their school is “beyond alarming” and “a clear sign of crisis,” according ...
Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. I was quite surprised last weekend when my eighth-grade daughter went to a coed party that the parents knew about, but for which they weren ...
Authorities began looking into Havemann-Niedrach, 44, in June, after the school’s vice principal told investigators he was worried about her relationship with the eighth-grader — after another ...
One blast from the past was Cavallari's eighth grade boyfriend, Johnny, whom she had recently reconnected with. But much to her dismay, the conversation left her feeling hurt and disappointed ...
Timothée Chalamet’s middle-school classmates predicted his future movie-star status. In eighth grade, the Hell’s Kitchen native was voted “Most Likely to Become Famous” by his class at MS ...
A new bill proposed in the Idaho Senate aims to require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade. Cursive is already taught in Idaho schools.