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A Pennsylvania Representative announced plans to introduce legislation that would require cursive handwriting to be taught in ...
In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.
Cursive writing was once a standard part of school curriculums, but when Common Core education standards removed it from the required curriculum in 2010, cursive's prevalence declined, says ...
Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. By Shawn Datchuk | Contributor May 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...
The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.
If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
Rouan explained the potential difference between printing and cursive, suggesting that “when you’re printing something, you draw the letter and then you stop and then you draw the next letter.
At St. Brigid — where the school logo is written in cursive – third graders are always excited to learn cursive, said teacher Cindy Halpin, who has been teaching it for 36 years.
She can sign her name in cursive, but outside of us making her write thank-you notes and address envelopes, she’s not used it consistently either. And when I ask her to, it’s a chore. “Ugh. Mom.
Learning cursive can unlock creativity and improve brain function, lawmakers said. But the practical application shouldn’t be overlooked, according to Fantasia.