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Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...
Cursive – the pinnacle of quick and elegant penmanship, or just fancy, antiquated squiggles? However you choose to describe it, students in Louisiana’s public and charter schools will get ...
Bookkeeper Platt Rogers Spencer created a fancy form of cursive with whorls and flourishes that was widely taught in schools starting in 1850, according to the National Museum of American History.
SOMERSET — From educational requirement to after-school activity, cursive writing is making a comeback – at least in one classroom at Somerset Public Library. “Up to the attic, through the ...
The National Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe more than 200 years worth of documents. You can help, even if you can't read cursive.
Another person asked how Skylar had helped her grandfather, as he referenced in the letter. She shared a sweet answer. “I ...
A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...
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 ...
Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” ...
The efficient writing style once thrived in U.S. businesses and schools, but researchers fret that today’s lack of cursive literacy may have a surprising impact on history—and ourselves.
Letters to the Editor: Are ballots getting tossed because we don’t teach cursive anymore? An election worker extracts ballots at the Los Angeles County Ballot Processing Center on Nov. 5.