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I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers.
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 in ...
Florida House Bill 921 would require all students in second through fifth grade to learn to write in cursive. Why is this law ...
A local student has some of the best handwriting in America. Fifth grader Ezra Rupple won the Nicholas Maxim Award for Cursive in a national handwriting contest.
The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...
Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...
If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...
Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...
And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...
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 in ...