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Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.
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. The students completed ...
The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...
Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.
In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting ... finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone something that ...
A Florida bill that would have required cursive handwriting in grades two through five won't be going to Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
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 ...