To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...
Turns out the skill your teachers drilled into you never stopped mattering.
Having a good relationship with your grandparents is a special thing. Not everyone has the privilege of even knowing their grandparents, so having them with you in their old age can mean a lot. One ...
COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...
The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...
Re “What’s the Point of Teaching Cursive?,” by John McWhorter (Opinion, nytimes.com, Dec. 13): The idea that most cursive documents will be “transliterated into print” is fine until you realize that ...
A group of students from five classrooms at an elementary school in Nelson, B.C., just competed in a North American ...