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The Richmond County School System announced Friday that seven elementary schools have been recognized for excellence in ...
Georgia elementary students will now learn cursive writing under new English Language Arts standards. Educators say it ...
Cursive instruction waned after Common Core Standards were adopted by most states in 2010, but in recent years, cursive requirements have increased.
Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.
When was the last time you wrote in cursive? Fifty-eight years ago The Saturday Evening Post was already calling America a "nation of scrawlers." Now, the recently established Common Core State ...
Proponents of cursive writing instruction say that although handwriting isn’t as much of a life skill as it was 20 or 30 years ago, students still need opportunities to learn and practice.
For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it.
Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.
APRIL BROWN: Still, lawmakers in several states have gone to great lengths to keep cursive in the classroom. Of the 45 states using the Common Core's English language arts standards, at least ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Most school districts in Texas don't currently teach cursive. But that's about to change. In 2017, the State Board of Education changed the requirements for the "English Language ...
Arkansas - passed H.B. 1044 earlier this year. The bill requires all public elementary schools to teach cursive writing as a component of English language arts by the end of 3rd grade beginning in ...