Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.
New Jersey mandates cursive instruction in all districts by 2026–27. Gov. Murphy cites history & cognitive benefits. Click ...
Everyone has their own style when it comes to penmanship. In fact, one could say that your handwriting is as unique to you as is your fingerprint. However, some people have handwriting that looks so ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida students could once again be learning cursive. A new bill filed in the Florida House could see students in grades two through five learning cursive handwriting once again. The ...
Just when we think traditional education is being tossed into the school trash bin, we get reminded that some of the old ways still actually work. Social studies and civics are being restored to ...
No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...
I can still feel the tips of my 10-year-old fingers striking the orange cover on the keyboard. It was in this 5th grade public-school class that – despite my frequent boos and bellyaching – I learned ...
“Handwriting was initially the first means of preserving information that was previously only passed down orally,” explains Donica. Before the invention of the printing press, copying information or ...
Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...
Children have to learn how to write letters. The debate in schools over the past two decades has been whether they should they learn to write in cursive or print. Some say that with so many students ...