Public schools must teach students how to write cursive legibly and become fluent in reading it, under a bill signed by Gov.
On Monday, Jan. 19, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new state law that mandates cursive instruction for grades three through five in all public schools, according to CBS News, ABC News and NJ.com.
Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research ...
Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...
Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...
A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...
No matter where you look, it seems like boomers can’t stop griping about the lack of cursive writing; kids today don’t do this, they don’t do that, and most egregiously of all, they don’t loop their ...
Kids, don’t listen to the naysayers. Don’t fall for the story that it’s a dying art with no practical application in the modern world. Don’t allow computers with their word processing capabilities to ...