COLOMA, Mich. (WSBT) — Fourth graders and veterans finally met face to face after a year-long pen pal connection. It was all a part of a pen pal program to enhance students’ reading and writing skills ...

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face. The pen pal ...

The Willard PAL Program started as a concept by longtime Police Chief Tom McClain to keep kids engaged after they graduated from the DARE Program. In the past 15 years, it’s expanded enough to impact ...

The Kirtland’s warbler is among Michigan’s best-known snowbirds, and now schoolchildren from its breeding and wintering grounds have connected through handwritten letters to help each other learn ...

PAL PROGRAM OFFERING MARYLAND STUDENTS A CHANCE TO CONNECT WITH YOUNG PEOPLE IN KENYA. KENYA’S CONNECTS GOAL IS THE SAME AS IT WAS 23 YEARS AGO. IF STUDENTS CAN READ, THEY CAN SUCCEED. AND WHEN JAMES ...

Brooke Wertz came up with a creative way for her kids to stay in contact with their cousins. The mom and creator tells PEOPLE that her kids used to only see their cousins a few times a year — so to ...