On Thursday, the State Assembly's Education Committee heard public comment on bills relating to curriculum, assessment programs and school board spending.

What do teachers unions, county fair boards and cursive handwriting have to do with each other? Bills having to do with each of them are all on ...

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools. Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty ...

Do you want something challenging to tackle? Can you read cursive handwriting? If so, the National Archives and the National Park Service are collaborating for the Revolutionary War Pension Files ...

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship once considered a common skill. While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to ...

In 2010, the newly established Common Core State Standards program, which outlines skills and knowledge students should acquire between kindergarten and high school, did not include cursive in its ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

In school we practiced learning and writing our letters. When I was in school, we learned cursive around 3 rd grade; after that you could really see various handwriting styles begin develop ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” ...