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Best Poetry Events In DFW
(Photo by: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images) Every year since its inception in 1996, April has designated as National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets. The purpose of the month-long...
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Will Typing Follow Cursive Out Of School?
DALLAS (AP) – The time-honored skill of typing is certainly still helpful, but it’s becoming less necessary. And that’s raising the question: Does typing have a future? In the halls of high schools and...
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Backstreet Boy, Now Author Nick Carter Talks With CBS 11
NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – You may know him from the Backstreet Boys, as a solo artist, or his reality TV show “House of Carters”, now meet Nick Carter the author. Nick talked to CBS 11 about his...
View ArticleOld-School Typewriters Attract New Generation Of Fans
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The vintage typewriter is making a comeback with a new generation of fans gravitating to machines that once gathered dust. From public “type-ins” at bars to street poets...
View ArticleKids Use Tech So Much They Can’t Hold A Pencil Anymore, Doctors Say
CBS Local – After previous studies claimed that children who overuse mobile devices struggle learning to speak, a group of doctors are now saying young children in the digital generation can’t even...
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9-Year-Old Girl Without Hands Wins National Handwriting Contest
CHESAPEAKE, Va (CBSDFW.COM) – A nine-year-old girl is defying the odds through her writing. Anaya Ellick, who was born without hands, won her second national handwriting award. Anaya Ellick (WTKR via...
View ArticleParenting Tips To Help Your Student Avoid The Summer Slide
FORT WORTH (CBSDFW.COM) – During summer break, studies show that kids lose between 25 percent to 30 percent of what they have learned during the school year. So, while relaxing by the pool or playing...
View ArticleCursive Making A Comeback?
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – In the age of tablets and laptops, fewer students are using loops and tails to communicate. But is cursive writing making a comeback in Texas? New state requirements are...
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Farmers Branch Manske Library Delivering Books Into People’s Hands — Without...
FARMERS BRANCH (CBSDFW.COM) – Countless public libraries, restaurants, salons, schools, government offices and businesses across the country, are closed to the public for the foreseeable future to slow...
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Community’s ‘Quarantine Project’ Creates Pop-Up Bookstore Benefitting...
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Books earmarked for donation to the University Park Public Library have piled up since the coronavirus crept from spring into summer. “With the library being closed for an...
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