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For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...
State legislators on the House Education Committee passed a bill requiring AEDs to be present at schools and school sporting events.
We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction ...
Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.
The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...
Kim Vanderlaan is a great third-grade teacher partly because she had a great third-grade teacher herself. It was that kind of positive classroom experience that made her want to be an educator in the ...
Cursive handwriting could be poised to make a comeback in public schools after studies have found reviving the penmanship ...
A bill that would require automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to be present at school and school sporting events passed the House Education Committee with bipartisan support Wednesday. State Rep.
with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction. Why might cursive ...
After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth ...