Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try Story by Shawn Datchuk Associate Professor of Special Education, University of Iowa • 25m ...

Even before the new law took effect on Jan. 1, cursive was a California learning goal in grades 3 and 4, but the state and school districts had not enforced its teaching or tested to see whether ...

Karen Kungie-Torres, 57, who uses cursive for journaling and teaches high school English in L.A., recalled that “one time I literally wrote each student’s name for them on their own papers so ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

Grant's book, Cursive Learning Adventure: A Fun Guide To Beautiful Handwriting, encourages individuals, especially young readers, to revive the art of cursive writing.

She taught herself cursive from a workbook in the 1980s, then had to learn a plainer style of cursive in class and lost points for loops. Contact her at 919-236-3141 or [email protected].

Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most states adopted which omitted cursive handwriting from expected academic skills to be learned by K-8 students.

Learning to type makes little demand on the brain: you just have to punch a key. Learning to touch type (typing without looking at the keys) is mentally demanding, and I encourage that kind of ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

The belief is that cursive started fading away once home computers became common. Since computers print letters, it is a more common style for the younger generation to read.

Education Cursive writing makes a comeback in NC. ‘It is on the books, and it needs to be taught.’ By T. Keung Hui March 2, 2018 7:34 PM ...