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Dana Russell teaches cursive to her 3rd grade class at Laurel School Upper Campus in Menlo Park, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. A law taking effect in 2024 will require cursive instruction.
But in 2010, when 41 states, including California, signed on to the nationwide Common Core State Standards, cursive was not included in the curriculum. The rationale: in a computerized world ...
Drew Gilpin Faust, welcome. Thank you so much for joining ... and you realized that two-thirds of your class couldn't read cursive and even more couldn't write cursive. Could you just remind ...
After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters ...
Once a standard in elementary schools, cursive is no longer taught to all students. A Maine lawmaker would like to change that. After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a ...
A proposal to bring cursive writing back into South Carolina public schools is one step closer to becoming law after passing out of committee Tuesday. Supporters celebrated as the bill ...
It was in this 5th grade public-school class that – despite my frequent ... While Pennsylvania’s public officials are looking to require cursive writing in schools, they need to additionally ...