“You can make it any way that you would like — as long as you ... to the fine points of cursive: A cursive lowercase “E” can look like a cursive lowercase “L” if students aren ...

Karen Kungie-Torres, 57, who uses cursive for journaling and teaches high school English in L.A., recalled that “one time I literally wrote each student’s name for them on their own papers so ...

For many young students, cursive handwriting is a lost art form, dismissed in favor of typing assignments on school Chromebooks or on educational apps. But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at ...

"Cursive instruction has been declining for years, long before 2010," he said. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education introduced Common Core, a set of academic standards in English language ...

But it would be a long demise. In 1956, Look magazine pronounced handwriting “out-of-date,” yet cursive still claimed a secure place in the curriculum for decades. Given a current generation ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive." Sponsor Message : [POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: This story ...

Spencerian cursive was the preferred writing style of ... Nowadays, smartphones have full capabilities to send long messages, emails, photos, voice messages, and videos via text.

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 ...

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 ...

Sells said, "There are studies out there that talk about things like cognitive development of motor skills, things that help kids in the long term. Cursive is a part of learning how to do that.