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Some of my students write in cursive. Others use some form of print. One writes in all caps, another in a rather elegant modern italic. But as long as their writing is legible, why should I or ...
That's something Cursive frontman Tim Kasher seemed to understand a decade ago, when he ripped out his heart, sewed it on ... it's unclear at first whether the line constitutes an apostasy or ...
Jan. 24, 2011 -- The handwriting may be on the wall for cursive. At least that's what some people fear as schools across the country continue to drop cursive handwriting from their curricula.
Last Wednesday Cursive made a tour stop at Tricky Falls to delight the ears of fans young and old. The first time I heard Cursive I was probably 14 years old so I couldn't pass up on the ...
That was where New York state Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis drew the line on the cursive generation gap, when she encountered an 18-year-old at a voter registration event who printed out his ...
"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership ...
The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau ... working on the Mason-Dixon line, to immigration and Census records.
DANBURY, Conn. — Francesca Curatilo attended three camps this summer: wilderness, martial arts and — in the final days before the start of school — cursive. Yes, cursive. On a sunny morning ...
The continuous line in writing a word provides kinesthetic feedback about the shape of the words as a whole, which is absent in manuscript writing.” In addition, cursive writing has been shown ...
The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with historian Drew Gilpin Faust about her story in The Atlantic, "Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive ... We stand in line outside rock concerts and World Series ...
“I’ll confess it’s a large amount of cities, but Phoenix is one of them that we felt buoyed by early on,” he says, “and that, always, will make it remain close to my heart.” Cursiv ...