New education standards end rote learning, cursive. ... Students are seen working on their cursive writing in Oceanhawk's 3rd grade class at ... solve 50 multiplication problems on a worksheet. ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

When it comes to the ways people communicate, the writing is on the wall — and it isn’t handwriting.Each new generation relies less on pen and paper to put down words and more on keyb… ...

Remember when you had cursive writing classes and assignments in school? While many of us loved this part of the homework, there were some who detested it and called it 'difficult'. It is a common ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

Why learning cursive writing is now required by law in California. Once deemed an unnecessary skill, it is now a legal requirement By Rashad Milligan Jan 09, 2024; 1:52 pm; Photo ...

One study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that cursive handwriting helps the brain learn and remember better, according to Psychology Today. Their data found cursive ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and ...