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 in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not ...

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 in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Cursive seems to be becoming a lost art amongst young people who spend far more time typing on their phones and computers than taking pen to paper. One Gen X woman came to this realization at the ...

I am holding myself accountable for stating — literally in print — I would be reintroducing the Lost Art of Cursive Writing to middle schoolers. After researching a lesson plan, I settled on a ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said. “It doesn ...

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 ...

Once considered a dying craft, cursive may soon see a revival in public schools across Florida thanks to a new bill that could mandate extended instruction for elementary school students.

Four men – Adrian Rodriguez, Darius Perkins, Dylan Driscoll and Jorge Rolon – are charged with murdering Obed Addow. Prosecutors allege the intended target had offended Rodriguez and others on ...

Obed Manuel works as a digital editor for Morning Edition. He edits and writes digital articles, both original and those based on broadcast stories. Prior to joining NPR, he worked as an audience ...

They brought out Cursive‘s Tim Kasher for “Nothing Gets Crossed Out,” and for the encore, had Omaha singer-songwriter Ted Stevens join them for a rendition of his band Lullaby for the ...