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I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers.
After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...
Florida House Bill 921 would require all students in second through fifth grade to learn to write in cursive. Why is this law ...
A local student has some of the best handwriting in America. Fifth grader Ezra Rupple won the Nicholas Maxim Award for ...
The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...
What happened? It is called the Common Core. We now know handwriting is a way to learn about a person. It is crucial.
Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...
'It's a link to our heritage and a tool for lifelong learning.' A House proposal to impose standards on elementary school students demonstrating mastery of cursive writing cleared its final ...
Florida schools are not explicitly required to ensure that students can read and comprehend cursive writing. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - There’s a new push to have Florida students become more proficient in ...