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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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.” ...
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-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 ...
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.
Cursive isn’t. It’s just an old-fashioned script for an old-fashioned age, pretty to look at but not the way anybody really communicates anymore. We don’t paint hieroglyphics on cave walls ...