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 ...
After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...
New bills in Florida would mandate cursive instruction for students in second through fifth grade. Proponents argue cursive is important for reading historical documents and developing a personal ...
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 a good ...
It was a good book, the student told the 14 others in the undergraduate seminar I was teaching, and it included a number of excellent illustrations, such as photographs of relevant Civil War ...
University of Iowa provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. 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 ...