Donna Whittaker, vice president of Curriculum and Education at Big Blue Marble Academy headquartered in Auburn, Alabama, said cursive writing was ... participate in the hope of earning the title ...

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The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

My stumbling block: cursive writing ... the mnemonic tricks she used for some of the harder letters. Put a hat on “O,” small and large. Widen the space between the two bubbles that make ...

As recently as a half-century ago, young American students would spend many lessons writing ... So I hope we’ll never lose it.” Lessons for life, no matter how much they will use cursive ...

argue that "more areas of the human brain are engaged when children use cursive handwriting than when they keyboard." Bateman continues, "The fluid motion employed when writing script enhances ...

California's standards had cursive writing goals, but Quirk-Silva said instruction was flagging and inconsistent. "The hope of the legislation is that by the time students leave sixth grade ...

I miss the artwork on the big cardboard square ... My children will prefer writing on keyboards, as I myself long have. I hope that the time once devoted to teaching cursive can now be diverted ...

While the piece did allude to some of the benefits of cursive writing and its positive relation to academic achievement, the improved memory functions are just a part of the advantages.

Yet even cursive writing's benefits for dyslexic students are contested. "In fact, for a very large subgroup of people with dyslexia, cursive really makes matters worse," said Kate Gladstone ...

On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a pen or a pencil to rekindle that creative feeling.” The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive letters on ...