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For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...
The measure would make cursive writing mandatory in elementary schools during the next academic year, citing brain development and cultural heritage. Once considered a dying craft, cursive writing may ...
This bill, filed on Feb. 23 by State Rep. Tobin Overdorf (R-Palm City), aims to expand cursive-writing requirements in the state’s public schools for students in grades two through five.
Most days, the news is like slicing a soccer-ball-sized onion. The headlines will make your eyes water with frustration, anger or fear—mass murders, disappearing jobs, tariffs on a y ...
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that family members can seek restitution for the lost future wages of a boy who was murdered in 2015. The ruling was centered around 6-year-old Jason ...
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 ...
A local student has some of the best handwriting in America. Fifth grader Ezra Rupple won the Nicholas Maxim Award for Cursive in a national handwriting contest. Pope Francis has died at the age ...