Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...
Thibault Asselborn worked his way through graduate school by teaching piano. As his students improved their finger dexterity and muscle memory, he discovered the same concepts that help or hinder a ...
A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...
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, ...
BALTIMORE -- What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of ...
Is cursive writing still being taught in America? Some states are starting to bring the old style back after disappearing. Cursive writing is a style of handwriting characterized by connected letters ...
For quick reminders and can’t-miss memos, sticky notes are effective tools, and I’d argue that the simplicity of the sticky note is its best attribute. But the ease behind propping up sticky notes ...
In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...
What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and correspondence, ...
For many young students, cursive handwriting is a lost art form, dismissed in favor of typing assignments on school Chromebooks or on educational apps. But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St.