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A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.
A bill is pending in the Michigan House to restore an optional cursive curriculum to schools. It should be mandatory.
Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.
Most boosters of cursive don’t go down that road, but we need to grasp what drives nostalgia and how it can get in the way of understanding what kind of handwriting instruction makes sense today.
Henderson, 44, said her son learned cursive basics in third grade but did not spend the hours that she did in school perfecting legible script and an attractive signature.
Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.
Metro Cursive handwriting back in schools? Some legislators want to require it Updated: Feb. 14, 2017, 9:17 p.m. | Published: Feb. 14, 2017, 8:17 p.m.
In 2012, handwriting teachers were surveyed at a conference hosted by Zaner-Bloser, a publisher of cursive textbooks. Only 37 percent wrote in cursive; another 8 percent printed.
Cursive handwriting – when is the last time you used it to write something other than your signature? With so much of our lives online now, the occasions to get out the pen and paper are getting ...
Published: August 22, 2019 5:04pm EDT Teaching connected-style handwriting, otherwise known as cursive handwriting, has fallen out of fashion on many school curricula.
A Michigan lawmaker has introduced legislation that would develop a statewide cursive curriculum for public schools. State ...