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Although Puka Nacua is one of the NFL’s top receivers as he heads into his third season with the Los Angeles Rams, he thinks ...
I also remember seeing, years ago, a special 'practice' sheet — which had additional lines in it to help you improve.” My friend said he missed the days when good penmanship was the rule.
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 ...
Cursive has been around at least since the late Roman Empire, when scholars found they could write faster if they joined the letters together. Even after the introduction of the printing press a ...
Lawmakers are pushing to require cursive writing instruction and testing for second to fifth-grade students in Florida public schools. Elliot Ravish, a self-proclaimed cursive lover, said she’s ...
After depriving a generation and a half from the teaching of cursive, school officials across the nation have decided it’s time (past time) to bring back cursive.
After watching her teacher trace the downward and upward curves of a capital C on the chalkboard, 9-year-old Camille Lebeis turned her attention to her cursive workbook.
The rationale: in a computerized world, old-school handwriting is superfluous. In California, computer training quickly absorbed cursive study’s timeframe and funds. Still, protests against its loss ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Island News) -- Cursive savants are wanted in a special project to transcribe veteran pension files from the Revolutionary War. The National Archives and the National Park ...
Raise your hand if you’re one of the remaining few who can still read cursive! It’s a dying art in the age of the keyboard, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) needs ...