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The Georgia Department of Education is bringing back cursive writing instruction to public elementary schools for the 2025-26 ...
“For older kids who never developed legible manuscript writing but recognize letters, cursive can feel like a fresh start,” she added. Developing automaticity. Whether students learn manuscript or ...
Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.
Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...
Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in California public schools | Dec. 3 The article regarding cursive sadly quotes an education professor who derides including cursive in school curricula.
A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.