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Do you remember how to write cursive? New state standards require 3rd to 5th graders to learn

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went out ...
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Column: Don't force kids to learn cursive. Mine is terrible, and I'm doing just fine

Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) “Messy! Messy!” Nearly 40 years later, the ...
Los Angeles Times

Readers show off their cursive skills, and then sound off about handwriting

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...
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Cursive writing has benefits, but should it be required?

An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

Cursive handwriting is back from the dead. N.J. schools now must teach it in grades 3-5.

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...
Los Angeles Times

Don’t force kids to learn cursive. Mine is terrible, and I’m doing just fine

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...