Best Math Games for 4th Grade Last updated: July 5, 2025 by Christine Elgersma Math class can move pretty fast for some kids, and as they progress through more challenging concepts, it can help to ...

Concerns over students not knowing how to form signatures has prompted one local group to question whether the state’s cursive requirement is worth the paper it’s written on.

Rita Lewis’ fourth grade class recently wrote essays to enact change at Central Elementary School. The hand dryers in the bathroom across the hall made learning difficult, and the students were ready ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother ...

According to the state, of the 97,750 third-graders tested, 38,744 or 39.6% were advanced or proficient in English language arts in 2024 compared to 45.1% of 100,793 assessed in 2019. For seventh ...

Because of large shape variations in human handwriting, cursive handwriting recognition remains a challenging task. Usually, the recognition performance depends crucially upon the pre-processing steps ...

INDIANAPOLIS — State legislators remain divided over whether Hoosier students should be required to learn cursive handwriting. But this month the House and Senate agreed that the option of ...

The House Student Academic Success Subcommittee unanimously advanced a bill 17-0 on Tuesday that would require cursive handwriting instruction in schools for students in grades two through five as ...

BOISE, Idaho (WKRC/KIVI/CNN Newsource) - The Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade.

BOISE, Idaho — A new bill proposed in the Idaho Senate aims to require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade.

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 from ...