Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...
An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...
Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...
When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...
A bill that would make cursive instruction mandatory for New Jersey elementary school students is on Gov. Phil Murphy's desk.
Cursive writing, once considered a fundamental skill, has experienced a revival in schools across the country in recent years. Teachers and researchers have recognized the cognitive and educational ...
No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...
Sen. Jean Leising once again wants cursive writing to be a required curriculum in every public, charter and state-accredited private elementary school in Indiana. Such instruction hasn’t been required ...
In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in California schools. On Friday Governor Newsom signed a bill that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade. Abigail ...
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