Why Cursive Mattered . Practicing the skill may have been laborious, but the art of penmanship is invaluable. By Anne Quito and Quartz. Albert Gea / Reuters. May 27, 2015. Share. Save.

Cursive writing can be faster than writing in print, as continuous strokes allow for a quicker writing speed, making cursive useful for note-taking and other situations where speed is important.

Third, those who can’t write cursive also can’t read it. Think about the letters and documents deceased family members wrote, the original copies of the Constitution and historical letters.

California mandates cursive handwriting instruction in elementary schools More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

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 ...

While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end ...

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law last Friday that requires the teaching of cursive writing in schools for grades one through six.

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