Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

In fact, the standards only briefly mention print handwriting, a writing style in which the individual letters of a word are unconnected, as a skill to be taught in early elementary grades.

School staff and experts give tips on how to prevent summer learning loss as school wraps up for Valley children.

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Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience, part of the University of Chicago Press series of guides to writing, editing and publishing, is the best book I’ve ever seen for showing academics ...

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