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Kentucky may soon add cursive to what it requires all its public school students to learn as part of the first significant revision of the state's math and English standards since they were ...
Cursive goes the way of 'See Spot Run' in many classrooms, ... The Wall Street Journal. English Edition. Edition. ... a set of math and English goals agreed upon by 45 states and now being ...
“A lot of our younger people can’t read cursive now because they were never taught cursive,” Leising said in February after her Senate Bill 72 was signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb.
In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Charleston resident Kelli Davis was in for a surprise when her daughter brought home some routine paperwork at the start of school this fall. Davis signed the ...
The Sun Journal editorial, “New ways to write right, but not in cursive” on Aug. 6 was a true disappointment to read. As a district, state and country, we are choosing to turn a blind eye to ...
Fifty years from now, no one in Indiana—or at least, no one born and raised in Indiana—will be able to write cursive. On the other hand, everyone there will be able to type, and by then ...
Kentucky House Bill 495 would require all children in Kentucky elementary schools to take instructional courses “designed to ensure proficiency in cursive writing by the end of grade five.” ...
While working through new national education standards, known as Common Core, North Carolina legislators want to make sure students don’t miss out on “the basics.” The Common Core standards ...