The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...
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Cursive writing helps students do more than sign their names

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...
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Cursive handwriting must be taught in grades 3-5 at N.J. schools

Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to one of Gov. Phil Murphy’s final acts. A state law signed Monday ...
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Quiz: See If You Remember How to Write in Cursive

Jan. 23 is National Handwriting Day, invented by the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association in 1977 and pegged to John Hancock’s birthday. On this day, Big Pen encourages you to “use a pen or a ...
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Poll: Should cursive writing be taught in N.J. classrooms?

Cursive writing is going the way of the floppy disc, photographic film and cassette tapes, we said. Whoa - not so fast, you responded. Two state lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring school ...
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Cursive slowly scribbled out of N.J. curriculums as computer skills gain value in schools

The bulletin board at the front of Melissa Balzano's classroom in West Orange is decorated with hand-written lists her students wrote in September, expressing their "Hopes and Dreams for Third Grade." ...
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N.J. bill would require students to learn cursive in schools

TRENTON, New Jersey -- A New Jersey lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring elementary schools in the state to teach students how to read and write in cursive by the end of third grade. Cursive was ...