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Why Cursive Is Finally Making a Comeback in Public Schools Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. By Shawn Datchuk | Contributor May 7, 2025, at 6:30 p.m.
Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...
Connecticut lawmakers have pardoned the women and men who were accused, convicted and executed for witchcraft in the 1600s.. House Joint Resolution 34, which was adopted by the state Senate ...
With mandatory cursive back in the Statehouse conversation, we asked our staff to write this sentence. How did we do? News Sports Indy 500 Things To Do Opinion Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ ...
Wisconsin Association of School Boards executive director Dan Rossmiller said in an email the group is opposed to the bill. In a separate phone interview, he said the state already has cursive ...
Restoring coins from the 1600s to 1800s isn’t easy, but the results are stunning. This video shows the careful process behind preserving 50 pieces of real history.
The National Archives needs help from people with a special set of skills–reading cursive. The archival bureau is seeking volunteer citizen archivists to help them classify and/or transcribe ...
California mandates cursive handwriting instruction in elementary schools More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning ...
In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.
Less than 10 years ago, only 14 states required schools to teach cursive—but that number has been steadily increasing, with 24 now having some kind of requirement. This year, Kentucky became the ...