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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 ...
A local student has some of the best handwriting in America. Fifth grader Ezra Rupple won the Nicholas Maxim Award for Cursive in a national handwriting contest.
Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...
The American Handwriting Analysis Foundation (AHAF) is excited to announce the return of the Cursive is Cool contest, ...
The different styles of writing and joining the letters together is almost an art ... handwriting was being dropped is the name change. Cursive was substituted for handwriting.
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 ...
And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...
The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...
If HB 921 passes, students would have to be able to write uppercase and lowercase letters in cursive, write legible words and sentences, and read and apply cursive to essays and other assignments.
Guest: Miriam Pawel is an award-winning reporter and editor who spent twenty-five years working for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography.