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I found the issue "Cursive nice, but not necessary" in the Courier-Journal to be very interesting. I went to school in a two-room building in the Pleasant Grove area of Bullitt County.
To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher ...
I recently saw an article that stated Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering passing a law to teach cursive in schools again. Since when does it take a law by government to teach “cursive ...
Students connect with seniors through letters in cursive Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this ...
We were strictly forbidden to use block letters on our homework, not only because block letters lack the beauty of cursive script but because functional but ugly block letters seemed to have ...
Three-D movies can cause epileptics like me to have a seizure. If they want to make movies in 3D, that's fine, but they should also show it in 2D, since not everyone can watch 3D.
One problem with not teaching school children cursive is that they will not know how to read cursive either.
The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on the screen and comparing them to the standard version that was taught in elementary schools for decades.
Cursive letters are written on a chalkboard. Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” ...
It cites research suggesting that fluent cursive helps students master writing tasks such as spelling and sentence construction because they don’t have to think as much about forming letters.
Cursive stopped being a mandatory part of Kentucky’s school curriculum in 2010 with the implementation of Common Core.