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Most people can't even write in cursive with their hands, but new technology is training those who have lost motor control to write with their eyes.
A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.
Roxanne Thompson teaches educators the fine points on cursive writing instruction. Some teachers are back in class, learning to teach cursive writing. It’s been cut way back in our digital ...
Many teachers nationwide no longer teach cursive writing to students.
That’s because in “cursive writing, compared to printing . . . the movement tasks are more demanding, the letters are less stereotypical and the visual-recognition requirements create a ...
Teaching kids to make those loopy letters is still a priority for Mother Jones Elementary. Another boy, named Dante, says he likes how neat his writing looks in cursive.
Cursive is somewhat of a lost art, but is it easy to retain? We asked 11 adults to try writing a sentence -- no Googling allowed.
Texas is restoring mandatory cursive writing classes for elementary school students. An Ohio law is aimed at kids being able to print letters and words by third grade and write legibly in cursive ...
As long as students are able to write in some form, whether cursive or block letters, they will be fine, researchers believe.