Cursive is making a comeback: Ontario to make learning script mandatory in school

Cursive is making a comeback: Ontario to make learning script mandatory in school

Reading Time: 1 Min. Experts welcome the move, while teachers’ federation says rollout is rushed The curriculum reintroduces cursive writing as an expectation starting in Grade 3. That’s welcome news for language education experts. (The Associated Press) Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, […]

How Author Yvonne Ventresca’s Writing Impacts New Jersey Readers

How Author Yvonne Ventresca’s Writing Impacts New Jersey Readers

Reading Time: 1 Min. When Hoboken’s Symposia Book Club members read Yvonne Ventresca’s Black Flowers, White Lies the group was thrilled to find Hoboken on every page. Yvonne’s suspenseful novels for teens place deception and betrayal in familiar places and the result is an especially fun read for locals . Read on to learn about […]

Cursive is making a comeback: Ontario to make learning script mandatory in school

Cursive is making a comeback: Ontario to make learning script mandatory in school

Reading Time: 1 Min. Experts welcome the move, while teachers’ federation says rollout is rushed The curriculum reintroduces cursive writing as an expectation starting in Grade 3. That’s welcome news for language education experts. (The Associated Press) Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, […]

Kelly Link says writing is miserable work. But it’s better than anything else.

Kelly Link says writing is miserable work. But it’s better than anything else.

Reading Time: 1 Min. Kelly Link is the author of “White Cat, Black Dog.” (Photo credit: Sharona Jacobs Photography / Courtesy of Random House) Kelly Link has always had a soft spot for all things magical. The author published her first full-length short story collection, “Stranger Things Happen,” in 2001; the book contained tales of […]

Matt Mitchell on Writing Love Poems for Himself and For Others

Matt Mitchell on Writing Love Poems for Himself and For Others

Reading Time: 1 Min. If you have been fortunate, you have gotten to watch Matt Mitchell’s evolution as a poet—one that began with him producing generously. A high rate of work that was, when looked back on now with a full understanding of his catalog, building a sort of universe within which is thematic concerns […]

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