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Can cursive writing make a comeback? A teacher and grammarian debate. | Pro/Con If McKnight’s bill becomes law, New Jersey will join Delaware and 23 other states that require schools to include ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that requires the teaching of cursive writing across the state. California Assembly Bill 446 amends the state's education code to include ...
The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...
Cursive is again becoming something to write home about as experts point out it may just boost a child's brain development. The "Cursive Challenge" is also now going viral on TikTok, with several ...
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 ...
Educators and parents are observing a surge in US youths who don’t know how to read or write in cursive — which they blame on handwriting increasingly becoming obsolete in the digital age.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Washington College in Maryland became the butt of the joke on late night TV last month after it changed its logo—George Washington’s cursive signature—because it was “difficult to read and ...
After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...
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 ...