My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy! Messy!” For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate. I still remember some of the mnemonic tricks she used for some of the ...

R-Indianapolis. The bill died last week. Last week, language was added to an internet safety bill to mandate cursive writing in elementary schools. Senate Bill 287 started with requirements ...

As typing on computers and texting on smart phones squeezes the learning of cursive handwriting out of school curriculums, teachers and others worry that these fundamental and personal documents ...

The woman explained that her son’s history teacher was writing homework assignments on the board in cursive—and her son couldn’t read them. Butt did some digging and found similar problems ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Republican state Sen. Elaine Morgan has proposed a bill that would make the teaching of cursive writing mandatory for grades 1 through 6 in classrooms statewide.

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by ...

He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not ...

All three of the siblings attend Ashwaubenon schools, where curriculum instructor Jill Kieslich says they still teach cursive to students ... Jeremy Thiesfeldt (R-Fond du Lac) and Sen.

My current long term classroom is in middle school. I became curious about how many students were able to sign their names or write in cursive. Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing?