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Inside the classroom, a new Kentucky law requires students to learn cursive. Senate Bill 167, which passed in 2024, goes into ...
A bill is pending in the Michigan House to restore an optional cursive curriculum to schools. It should be mandatory.
Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...
It comes as good news to see that a local lawmaker’s proposal to require cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania’s ...
California students will have to go old-school when it comes to penmanship. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Oct. 13 requiring that cursive writing be taught in the state’s schools.
A 2020 study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that students writing in cursive activated different electrical activity in the brain as compared to typing and argued ...
On Jan. 1, cursive writing became a state requirement for all California public school students in first through sixth grades. It has not been required since 2010, when success on standardized ...
The Press Herald article on the news (“ New bill would write cursive into law,” Feb. 27) included remarks from enthusiasts about the presumed benefits for all learners and also a perspective ...
In the classroom, the six-year-old is described as creative, witty, smart and artistic. Levi’s mom believes cursive is a form of art, so it’s no surprise he’s so good at his favorite subject.
NEW YORK (CBS) — Today, Jan. 23, is National Handwriting Day, celebrated on the birthday of John Hancock. But nowadays, penmanship – especially cursive – is becoming a lost art.
A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.