Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Justin Gross, director of school improvement and innovation for both the Nevada and Colo-Nesco school districts, works for a district, Nevada, that no longer teaches cursive handwriting and a district ...

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 ...

A new state law requires teaching cursive writing in elementary schools starting in September. Some educators aren't happy ...

The next generation of Georgia youths may be able to decipher those birthday cards from grandma without any help from a grown-up. That's because Georgia's new English language arts standards, which ...

BALTIMORE -- What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5. Third graders will begin learning how to read and write in cursive ...

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