They provided a way to reach out and say: I am noticing you. This message of thanks or congratulations or sympathy comes not from some staff person or some machine but directly from me. I touched ...

“I had people reach out to me that their 12-year-old granddaughter and 17-year-old grandson couldn’t read cursive and couldn’t sign their name,” said Rep. Joe Adams (R-Wayne County & Pike ...

Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

What do you mean you can't read cursive? And then it turned out that two-thirds of the students in the class couldn't read cursive. And I was just stunned. I had no idea.

Getting people to volunteer has turned out to be a challenge. Cursive was removed from federal Common Core education standards in 2010, so fewer people know how to read or write it. Cursive Comeback ...

To address previous inconsistencies in cursive instruction, Quirk-Silva, who had a meeting with former governor Jerry Brown in 2016, advocates for comprehensive cursive proficiency by sixth grade.

A little over a decade ago, cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools. In 2010, most states adopted Common Core academic standards , which omitted cursive handwriting from the expected academic ...