Some say it was the shift to Common Core standards in 2010, which target keyboard skills for elementary ... cursive and instead says that, by first grade, children should be able to print the ...

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 ...

RASCOE: Ms. Brooks has a cursive alphabet up on the wall and says her ... RASCOE: Erica Ingber is the principal of Longfellow Elementary in Pasadena. She says as a kid, she struggled with cursive ...

Those who enter must write the following nine-word sentence (a pangram, which contains every letter of the English-language alphabet ... Kursky said cursive is often taught in elementary school ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a ... and Winslow, provide cursive instruction to elementary students. Because it was eliminated from the state’s ...

But even before then, cursive was slowly being phased out of elementary school curricula ... chosen because it contains every letter in the alphabet. The scan returned the text with just two ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education ... to playful games (the Cursive Alphabet Monster will help lure young kids into ...

“I have a bit of arthritis in my hands and I swear it dates back to getting my knuckles wrapped by the nuns rulers in elementary school. I was sloppy with my cursive penmanship and I could not ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - A new bill going through the Florida capitol would make cursive writing more of a priority in schools in the state. An analysis for this new bill says right now Florida ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a ... and Winslow, provide cursive instruction to elementary students. Because it was eliminated from the state’s ...