The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...
STAUNTON — A few weeks ago one of the reporters at The News Leader received an envelope from someone with a story idea. She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first ...
What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- If cursive writing is a lost art, Debbie Younger may be the modern-day “Indiana Jones" of penmanship. The Fountain grandmother is on a new crusade to bring back ...
It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...
Sen. Andy Zay, R-Huntington, one of the three who voted against the bill, said the internet safety provisions of the bill should be required but cursive should be an option for school districts to ...
If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...
A Michigan lawmaker is continuing to push for students to learn to read and write cursive in schools. Rep. Brenda Carter, D-Pontiac, introduced House Bill 4675, which would require the Michigan ...