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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 been taught ...
A proposal to bring cursive writing back into South Carolina public schools is one step closer to becoming law after passing out of committee Tuesday. Supporters celebrated as the bill ...
Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining ...
To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher ...
Texas will reintroduce cursive writing to the state curriculum for elementary students beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. Second graders will learn how to write cursive letters, and third ...
Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines. Common Core does not include cursive in the recommended curriculum. In the years since Common Core's conception ...
On Friday Governor Newsom signed a bill that will require cursive instruction in first through sixth grade. Abigail Soriano-Lentz is the English Language Arts Curriculum Coordinator for the East ...
Lisa Meinen-Doerksen, a mother of two children at Border Star Montessori in Brookside, said she likes cursive writing. She believes it has helped her children’s fine motor skills and their ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) -- While learning to write in cursive was once a standard part of school curriculums across the country, many classrooms have stopped teaching students to loop and link their ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A state lawmaker said she will again push for mandatory cursive writing instruction following a new report that shows large numbers of Indiana schoolchildren never learn it.
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 ...