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Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.
In today’s digital age, many see cursive writing as a relic of the past reserved for older generations. But a bill recently introduced in the Michigan House is spearheading a renewed effort to get ...
A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...
Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.
“This bill isn’t just about nostalgia of being able to read grandma’s letters and primary source historical documents.” Thiesfeldt pointed out the benefits of cursive writing, including ...
Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.
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 ...
Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones A fourth-grade student practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena last month.
Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters that form a flowing script, with continuous strokes and looped letter formations. Cursive is used worldwide for various ...
A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...