Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill requiring cursive instruction for students in grades three through five, aiming to ...
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 ...
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 ...
(TNS) — 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 ...
For 30 minutes each day, Mikayla Blalock’s fourth grade students at Samuel E. Hubbard Elementary School in Monroe County focus on what some consider a lost art in the digital age: cursive writing.
Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the handwritten recipe, ...
I preach to my kids to expand their horizons and do things outside of their comfort zones, yet I have been happy behind a computer keyboard tapping out my thoughts and telling others’ stories for ...
Missouri legislators are again pushing to make learning to write cursive mandatory for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Bigstock As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it ...
A bill requiring cursive instruction and proficiency standards in Florida schools is awaiting the governor's signature. Advocates argue that learning cursive improves spelling, writing fluency, and ...
Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. 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 ...