(The Conversation) – Recently, my 8-year-old ... just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through ...

Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday ... only 31% of fourth grade students scored proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve ...

A new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom will require California schools to teach cursive to elementary students in first through sixth grade ... classroom economy, we sign contracts and so ...

But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St. Pius V School in Melville, cursive is a craft of precision, patience and practice. And one in which the 14-year-old is without peer for her grade.

Some of the new laws, ranging from homeowner protection and transportation to cursive instruction ... students in kindergarten through eighth grade and prohibits teachers from withholding it ...

“Cursive is traditionally a very Catholic school subject,” Principal Tobias Harkleroad said, noting that penmanship is rated on students’ report cards through eighth grade. On a recent ...

Law dictates students must be able to print letters and works legibly by third grade must be able to write in cursive by the end of fifth grade. Cursive will need to become a part of the ...

BOISE (KIVI) – The Idaho Legislature has passed a bill that would require all Idaho students to be proficient at reading and writing in cursive by the end of 5th grade. The bill will now be sent ...

while third-grade through eighth-grade students submit cursive entries. Selection is based on the Zaner-Bloser criteria of shape, size, spacing and slant, each tested in the submission’s ...

There’s a scene in Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade” where the main character, Kayla, scores an invite to a pool party thrown by a popular peer and attended by everyone the shy girl wishes she ...

One of my favorite memories of eighth grade was watching a classmate handwrite ... handwriting was being dropped is the name change. Cursive was substituted for handwriting. Kids came home and ...