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A bill that would mandate cursive throughout the entire state is winding its way through Harrisburg, sponsored by Republican ...
Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...
Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...
Twenty-three states require cursive to be taught in public schools, including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The writing form has been making a comeback in recent years.
Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.
Recently, the National Archives in Washington, D.C., put out a plea for volunteers with the ability to read cursive writing to help with efforts to transcribe or catalog 200 years of U.S ...
Cursive may be easier to write than print — for many, at least — but it’s harder to read. And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, ...
Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.
Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.
In a bipartisan show of appreciation for the twists and curls of cursive writing, state Sen. Curtis Trent and state Reps. Renee Reuter, Peggy McGaugh, Stephanie Boykin and Marlene Terry all have ...
In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.