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A Kentucky law that passed in the spring of 2024 will require elementary schools to teach cursive writing, starting with the ...
Pennsylvania could become the 26th state requiring cursive to be taught in U.S. classrooms. Trump Promised ‘No Tax on Tips.’ ...
I recently saw an article that stated Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering passing a law to teach cursive in schools again. Since when does it take a law by government to teach “cursive,” or what we ...
Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive ...
The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.
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 ...
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.
State Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, the Senate sponsor of a cursive mandate for the past seven years, said putting the instruction option in state law is "minimal," but still "a step forward in ...
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.
A bipartisan proposal to require cursive handwriting instruction in grades 3-5 in the state won approval from the state Assembly Education Committee earlier this month.
Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion that ...
Twenty-three states require cursive to be taught in public schools, including Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. The writing form has been making a comeback in recent years.