Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...
Brianna Bell is a writer based in Guelph, Ont. At the end of June, while students and teachers were packing up their bags and dreaming of summer vacation, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce ...
Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...
Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...
In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...
Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...
For many, it's an indelible memory: poring over a tablet and trying to replicate the perfect curls and sweep of cursive writing. As more states eliminate the teaching of cursive from their curriculum ...