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With states across the country dropping cursive from their core curricula, some worry about the effect on young minds.
Before students hunker down to take their SATs this spring, many will have an array of tools to help them with the exam. Flash cards, study guides and — cursive handwriting? For many, cursive ...
The survey shows that cursive writing — once a staple of elementary instruction but long considered to be a dying script — is still alive in many classrooms across the country.
Texas will reintroduce cursive writing to the state curriculum for elementary students beginning in the 2019-2020 school year.
Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they blame on handwriting increasingly becoming obsolete in the digital age.
Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...
To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.
Students with dyslexia have difficulty learning to read because their brains associate sounds and letter combinations inefficiently. But cursive can help them with the decoding process because it ...
The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...
Cursive handwriting is alive in North Carolina’s elementary schools – five years after state lawmakers required that students be taught what some advocates feared was becoming a long lost art.