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If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...
Fast-forward 30-plus years and Sister Margaret Mary was the first person who came to mind when I read about two New Jersey ...
Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or documents, but programs such as Docusign have even made this practice, ...
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 ...
Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...
Modesto City Schools Superintendent Sara Noguchi said one reason students should know cursive is to more easily read primary sources and historical documents that were written that way. Cognitive ...
If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for ...
Imagine a time when children can’t read historical documents. Young adults can barely ... confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse ...
The Florida House passed the cursive handwriting bill unanimously, 131-0. Now, it must pass the Senate and be signed into law ...
The Florida House unanimously passed a bill 113-0 on Wednesday that would require cursive handwriting in grades two through ...
Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...