Yahoo

Should students go back to learning cursive? Georgia schools say 'Yes'

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school ...
Penn Live

Learning cursive is good, but kids really need to know how to type for the modern world | Opinion

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 ...
AOL

Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California

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 ...
Yahoo

Letters to the Editor: Learning cursive can be torture. Why force something so obsolete on kids?

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano's column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son's fourth-grade teacher complained ...
Rolling Out

Why learning cursive writing is now required by law in California

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led ...