Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive ...

Is Brooklyn trying to erase history?

The writing lesson is fading away ... a fourth grade teacher at St. Edmund Elementary in Brooklyn, said. Only 21 states currently require cursive instruction, according to the National ...

They’re back out on the road this year, though, and returned to NYC on Thursday night for a show at Brooklyn Paramount ... He has co-writing credits on many of its songs, features on “Rainbow ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school. Handwriting ...

Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

In today’s time, we typically write in print format, but I remember a time when writing in cursive was a requirement. Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and ...

(Photo by Steve Wynn) The girls’ father, Steve Wynn, translated Grandma’s cursive handwriting into more familiar block letters for them and before long they all had bellies full of the warm ...

Schools can purchase Zaner-Bloser cursive writing instructional materials, and only some of the district’s schools opt to use that resource. For 32 years, the Columbus, Ohio-based company had ...

Long before Chromebooks took center stage in schools, there was cursive handwriting. But for many children growing up today, cursive can be akin to hieroglyphics, as the Modesto Bee reported. Common ...