Those who enter must write the following nine-word sentence (a pangram, which contains every letter of the English-language alphabet) in cursive: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." ...

One involved running the letters of a word together—and cursive (based on the Latin verb ... curriculum standard’s lead writers for English and language arts, Sue Pimentel explained that ...

“Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a third-grade class for history, math and reading — but not English. My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy! Messy!

(Photo by Steve Wynn) The girls’ father, Steve Wynn, translated Grandma’s cursive handwriting into more ... 2010 Common Core State Standards for English and math, which didn’t include ...

But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

Cursive writing is still widely taught in Western Europe. Spain, Italy, Portugal, and France have held onto the tradition. And in the UK, joined-up handwriting is still taught in English classrooms.

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 ...

In 1850, cursive writing was first introduced widely in ... Launched in 2010, the Common Core State Standards outlined specific skills in English/language arts and mathematics in an effort to ...