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 ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said. “It doesn ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

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?

Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and sophistication. For generations, children were taught to flourish their letters in a continuous, flowing style that was ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

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If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

There’s also lots of really naïve, child-like handwritten fonts that are knowingly wobbly, which is interesting,” Garnham notes. Whether or not there’ll be a full blown cursive renaissance Garnham is ...

With classrooms awash in technology, there has never been a better time to bring back cursive writing instruction to all public schools. Surprised? You shouldn’t be: Cursive handwriting is ...