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To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in ...
An inscription on an 1,100-year-old breastplate found in a ruined fortress in Bulgaria may contain one of the earliest known examples of Cyrillic text, researchers claim. When you purchase through ...
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old-school arts and enhance their research and writing skills. “Cursive,” Guertin said, “is an artistic expression of who we want to be.” Which was ironic, considering cursive’s ...
Because the ability to read old cursive is declining, the National Archives is conducting a search for volunteers who can read and comprehend documents dating back to the Revolutionary War.
In the classroom, the six-year-old is described as creative, witty, smart and artistic. Levi’s mom believes cursive is a form of art, so it’s no surprise he’s so good at his favorite subject.
"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 ...
Did archaeologists find oldest Cyrillic text on 1,000-year-old breastplate? There is reason to believe that the inscription on the breastplate is in fact one of the earliest Cyrillic texts known ...
His technique is so good he was named a state and national champion of a dying art: cursive writing, a skill that once seemed destined to go the way of the typewriter. The boy, Edbert Aquino ...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - In an age when typing and texting are the main forms of communication, cursive has become almost a lost art. However, 91-year-old Marilyn Harrer is back in the classroom ...
Written on parchment, the fragment represents one of the oldest forms of the Cyrillic script and is important in the history of Slavonic literacy and more particular, of the translations from Greek ...