For all the new things that schools will be called on to teach under the soon-to-be-implemented Common Core curriculum standards, it’s a skill that has been omitted that is causing controversy: ...
One survey of handwriting teachers found that just 37% wrote in cursive. And that was a dozen years ago. Bigstock Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...
Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the flourishes, the art and the discipline that go into writing “longhand.” (Does anybody use that word anymore?) My late ...
Easton Area School District children know their way around an iPad. But writing their names legibly? Not so much. That’s the assessment of Easton Area School Board member Meg Sayago, who said she ...
AMID OUR SPRING of perpetual rain and the local discovery of human remains comes more bad news: cursive writing could be dead in a decade. The culprit is the very tool we used to compose this ...
It is alarming that some teachers see no need for students to learn cursive. Are we so dependent on our electronic devices that we will take such drastic shortcuts with students? Many students today ...