Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...
New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
In addition to learning to sign their name or read greeting cards from grandparents, children practicing cursive writing hone ...
Pennsylvania students will soon join a growing number of their peers nationwide practicing the looping, connected script of cursive writing—part of a broader national revival of the once-standard ...
When states in 2010 introduced the Common Core State Standards, which didn’t include cursive writing, most schools abandoned the flowy form of writing altogether. But cursive has begun making a ...
Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...
Sen. Ann Rest (DFL-New Hope) recently introduced a bill in the Minnesota Legislature that would mandate cursive learning. I don't advocate for or against the bill, but I can vouch ...
Well, it’s finally over. My stint as a seventh grade English Language Arts co-teacher has come to an end, but not without a Finale. For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about ...
In our home, we have a framed letter written by a Civil War soldier to his mother. That letter has been passed down for generations in my mother-in-law’s family. In it, the soldier talks about the ...
Cindy Halpin writes the word “city” in cursive on the board for her students to practice cursive writing in her third grade classroom at St. Brigid School in Portland on Wednesday. Brianna ...
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