Research has shown that cursive handwriting enhances brain development, increasing neural pathway activation, memory recall, and fine motor skills, improves overall cognitive growth and confidence, and aids students in a variety of academic pursuits.…
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Kevin Grady
Recently I came across a paper I wrote 60 years ago, in 1965, when I was a freshman at Cooperstown Central School. The English teacher required every ninth-grader to write an autobiography. I thought to myself, this is going to be great. I’ll share it with my kids and grandkids so they can see what I was thinking about then.…
LETTER from KEVIN GRADY Want To Revive Baseball? Make It Kid-Centric Again To the Editor (and baseball fans everywhere): Kudos to former Baseball Hall of Fame president Jeff Idelson for co-founding Grassroots Baseball, an effort to connect young kids to what at one time was our National Pastime. When my generation was growing up, we would race home after school to catch the World Series at about the third inning, creating fond, lifelong memories. My kids didn’t have that opportunity.…
