When was the last time you wrote in cursive? Fifty-eight years ago The Saturday Evening Post was already calling America a "nation of scrawlers." Now, the recently established Common Core State ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The day Suzanne Bowland learned that cursive handwriting had died at her son’s Denver Public School, she vowed to take matters into her own hands. Literally.
A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...
A Tulsa woman, Linda Shrewsbury, has developed a cursive curriculum called Cursive Logic to revive cursive writing in schools, particularly after its removal from federal standards in 2010. TULSA, ...
Teaching writing to kids is the next step of learning after they are strong with picture identification skills. It usually begins with pattern writing and then moves on to letter writing, sentence ...
Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...
Bonnie Morris has been keeping a journal for roughly 50 years. She used to read thousands of students’ essays for the Advanced Placement U.S. History exam. When she grades her students’ work, she ...
Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...
It’s fun Friday in Jill Davis’ third-grade classroom in Mechanicsburg. Students start their day playing a game that puts their cursive writing skills to the test. Called “here comes the judge,” the ...