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The Art of Handwriting
Writing a letter in one’s own hand can be an artistic act. Handwriting animates paper. The bold flairs of calligraphic script shout for attention, while elegant flourishes of cursive sashay across the ...
Education Week8d
The Number of States That Require Schools to Teach Cursive Is Growing
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.
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Is Handwriting a Lost Art? What One College’s Kerfuffle Over Cursive Can Tell Us
Researchers say that handwriting is linked to academic success. Historians, like Morris, worry what is lost if people can’t ...
Children’s handwriting is dying. Here is the proof
In 2020, researchers in Norway found that learning cursive helped children ... so pupils do not get “enough practice time to ...
BBC11mon
Do we need to teach children joined-up handwriting?
The US state of Illinois has passed a law requiring school students to learn joined-up handwriting, or "cursive", overriding the governor's veto. It is no longer a requirement in US schools ...
Face Off: Should schools continue to teach penmanship in the digital age?
Each week, two readers discuss a hot topic in a parliamentary-style debate that doesn’t necessarily reflect their personal ...
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Children’s handwriting is dying. Here is the proof
Handwriting is taught in primary schools, with children expected to write in cursive “legibly, fluently and with increasing speed” by the time they leave at the age of 11. But the increasing ...