The years since the pandemic have seen renewed interest among some educators for scribbled answers between powder blue covers ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not ...

Cursive writing isn’t just a skill ... demonstrate proficiency in literacy activities such as writing essays and assignments. The State Board of Education would have been responsible for ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

For now, they have the option to print or use cursive for their assignments. “I feel like for me it takes longer, and it just hurts my hand,” said Shane McWilliams, 9. “It’s too much to ...

Cursive was substituted for handwriting ... I want some eighth grade boy to someday admire another person writing the next day's assignment on the chalk board.

Like her classmates, she prints most of her assignments or types them on a computer ... the district continues to commit a little time each week to cursive lessons in the early grades.

(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File) TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – While some believe that cursive writing is essential for young scholars, others argue that it is an outdated skill that should be left in ...

And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...

One of my most enduring memories from Our Lady of Refuge School in the Bronx during the 1980s is that stern elder nun, her gaze burning through my sheet of crisp loose-leaf paper as I struggled with ...