Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned ... worked her way through lowercase “T,” “I” and “E,” explaining the differences between print and cursive ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said. “It doesn ...

In 1850, cursive writing was first introduced widely in schools, developed “based on fluid movements observed in nature,” according to the National Museum of American History. The irony is ...

It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographs of relevant Civil War ...

My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy! Messy!” For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate. I still remember some of the mnemonic tricks she used for some of the ...

“Many of our private schools teach cursive writing,” Quirk Silva said. “I want the balance, that all of our students can access historical information.” Around the Bay Area, some districts ...