But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 students in the United States. Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting, including ...

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 ...

Launched in 2010, the Common Core State Standards outlined specific skills in English ... Just like writing those loopy capital cursive letters, it will take time, perseverance, and practice.

These include English, mathematics and physical education. As to cursive handwriting, I believe concern arose that young kids often are so computer reliant that focusing on actual handwriting will ...

And I - in this beautiful cursive handwriting. And it never occurred to me that my children might not be able to read that, you know what I mean? FAUST: Exactly. Exactly. It does separate you from ...

The ability to read cursive handwriting is helpful but not essential ... said Jaime Cantrell, a professor of English at Texas A&M University - Texarkana whose students take part in the Citizen ...

Since then, though, there’s been a resurgence of cursive and handwriting education. Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive—but that number has been steadily ...

Some schools around the world have even stopped teaching cursive altogether ... “Keeping some handwriting practice is a very good exercise for the brain,” she says. “It is the equivalent ...

both the letter case writing and the cursive writing skills are tested." Read more about Florida's B.E.S.T. Standards in English Language Arts HGTV names these two Florida cities one of 30 up ...

Schoolchildren were once taught impeccable copperplate handwriting ... to write in cursive in third grade, making it a rite of passage, said Jaime Cantrell, a professor of English at Texas A ...