The standards require that students master keyboarding and a form of handwriting, either print or cursive, said Kathryn Hrabluk, who was an associate superintendent for the Arizona Department of ...

Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

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The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators ...

“All of my daughter's homework was done in print and she never had any handwriting homework. I asked her teacher about it at the parent/teacher conference and she informed me that cursive was no ...

And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 percent of them write exclusively in script. Another 8 percent write only in print, while ...

That may sound like a ringing endorsement for cursive handwriting, but when asked if cursive writing is better for a child's development than printing, Bastian makes it clear: She doesn't know.

So many people have unhappy stories about learning cursive writing that a popular new instructional method is called “Handwriting Without Tears.” Do we still need cursive writing? Some states ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwritin… ...

When he studied what happened to students’ handwriting later in their school careers, he found that the students who mixed cursive and print generally were faster than those who stuck to one ...