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I have become aware that not one of my four grandchildren knows how to write in old-fashioned cursive script. Their parents tell me it is not taught in their school. I think this is a shame. What ...
My own experience with cursive writing could have been traumatizing, had kids of the 1960s been as aware of the Trauma-Over-Everything-Syndrome that proliferates today.
Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in ...
I am of an age when we had to learn cursive writing. If I recall, it was in the fourth grade. My grandchildren do not know how to write in cursive, and their printing is very sloppy and hard to ...
Dear Heloise: I’ve been a family and marriage counselor for nearly 20 years, and the majority of women I’ve seen have gone through a divorce or are in the middle of one.
Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you ...
Assembly Bill 446 would require cursive handwriting instruction in first through sixth grade. The bill comes from Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva, D-Fullerton, a former public elementary school ...
A 10-year-old girl who was born without hands has proven that she can complete tasks as well as anyone else – if not better. With a neatly written cursive sample, Sara Hinesley earned the ...