Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion that cursive ...

Although cursive is not required in Arizona%2C many schools still teach it. Some say writing in cursive helps develop the brain. An Arizona State University professor disputes the notion 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 ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with ...

This bill, filed on Feb. 23 by State Rep. Tobin Overdorf (R-Palm City), aims to expand cursive-writing requirements in the state’s public schools for students in grades two through five.

“We had no idea what they were, and things were written, obviously in this old-fashioned cursive. I knew how to ... and around 500 love letters between the general and his wife, Nannie Wharton.

BOISE, Idaho (KIVI) – Lawmakers in Idaho are moving a bill which aims to make sure all students in the state are proficient at cursive writing through to the state House. Senate Bill 1044 would ...

“You just don’t see very many people using cursive because a lot of people are not writing checks anymore,” said Tina Brennan, one of Sioux City Community School District’s consulting teacher ...

A bill that requires all Oklahoma public and charter schools to teach cursive writing to students in third through fifth grades has been signed into law. The Oklahoma House of Representatives said ...

What I discovered almost makes you want to give a pass to many of today’s stars when it comes to writing their names. Schools eliminate cursive With the emergence of computers, by the turn of ...

“Learning cursive is important because our primary source documents, many historical documents, notes and letters were written in cursive ... including Florida, Tennessee and Arizona. If Bangert’s ...