Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) will begin cursive handwriting instruction for students in grades 3-5 this upcoming fall. To align with Georgia’s K-12 English ...
When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...
Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it ...
Is cursive becoming a lost art? The 2010 Common Core standards began omitting cursive instruction, meaning that many members of Gen Z have never been taught how to read or write cursive, The Atlantic ...
An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...
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 ...
As school-age children increasingly rely solely on digital devices for remote- and in-class learning, many K-12 school systems around the world are phasing out cursive handwriting and no longer ...
No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...
Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...