Cursive writing is still an important skill to learn. Bluefield Daily Telegraph; Mar 9, 2020 Mar 9, 2020; One of the more interesting bills to be introduced during the 2020 legislative session was ...

SAN MATEO, Calif — Monique McGowan sharpens a No. 2 pencil, straightens her posture and sharply slants her notebook to prepare for her weekly lesson in cursive. She and other third-graders at ...

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

But I was a whiz at cursive writing. I enjoyed it thoroughly as I fancied up the capital ‘E’ of my first name. I wrote it at the beginning of my signature on everything then, even as I still ...

Teaching cursive writing became an optional curriculum in 2011 when Indiana adopted the Common Core State Standards for education. Since then, Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, ...

Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, Old Waste of Time Seven states are fighting to continue teaching penmanship in schools By John Boone Nov 15, 2013 6:52 PM ...

Entering a national debate, freshman Louisiana Sen. Beth Mizell wants to require public schools to teach cursive writing, starting in August. “I have people who tell me they got a thank-you note ...

Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, raised concerns that the cursive writing proposal will be an unfunded mandate with high costs for schools.

We understand the impulse to enforce cursive-writing standards, but it also seems dubious in an era when thumb-typing - i.e. texting - is a preferred method of communication, ...

The loss of handwriting also may be a cognitive opportunity missed. The neurological process that directs thought, through fingers, into written symbols is a highly sophisticated one.

PORTLAND (AP) -- Looking through 17 papers that University of Portland students recently wrote in class, Education Professor Richard S. Christen finds only two are in cursive handwriting. Everyone ...