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 ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...
A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...
DUNMORE, Pa. — On the schedule for second graders at Dunmore Elementary Center is a lesson in cursive handwriting. Danielle Pensack is the curriculum coordinator for the Dunmore School District and ...
As many as 4%2C000 Arizona kids are expected to enter the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest this month. The Arizona College and Career Ready Standards do not require that students learn ...
As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...
Cursive handwriting is disappearing from the list of required courses at U.S. schools, so one New Jersey grandmother is making sure her grandson's schoolmates know how to loop their Ls and curl their ...
The Atlantic magazine recently ran an article on the demise of cursive writing, and judging from the letters to the editor, there are still many people who believe that the inability to write in ...
As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing curved loops and diagonal lines, as they learned how to write in cursive. Over the years, though, computer ...
I have graceful handwriting. Pardon me for bragging, but I can put a flair on written words that draws admiration from others, though few see it because I rarely use pen and pencil anymore. Most of my ...