Arizona classrooms are expected to teach cursive handwriting through fifth grade. By third grade, students will be expected to read and write cursive letters in both upper and lower case.

The State Board of Education is considering requiring cursive writing — you've got to be kidding. This is in a state whose per pupil spending is better compared to third-world countries and we ...

PHOENIX — Arizona will require public schools to teach cursive handwriting as one of a number of new education standards approved by the state Board of Education. The move amends state's current ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails ... sometimes we get more than we ever imagined." Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona will require public schools to teach cursive handwriting as one of ... They also add a "foundational writing skills strand" for kindergarten through third grade that ...

"Cursive writing is a traditional skill that has been ... Since 2010, 45 states - including Arizona - and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core standards, which do not require ...

Cursive writing may not have the power of prayer ... said Steve Graham, an education professor at Arizona State University who has studied handwriting instruction. "There will be plenty of ...

My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy! Messy!” For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate. I still remember some of the mnemonic tricks she used for some of the ...

But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and downs of a new California law that requires the teaching of cursive writing, which has been cast aside as obsolete in the digital age. But cursive is ...