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It's useless and won't help a person survive in the real world. Of course school is full of useless study . . . But in the digital age when the standard issue tool for communication is a keyboard . .

Reading cursive can now be added to the list of most-wanted skills – at least according to the U.S. National Archives and ...

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That’s ridiculous.” As of right now, cursive lessons will begin in third grade classrooms, but that could change in the next year. The National Education Association (NEA) South Bend Teacher ...

A Pennsylvania lawmaker has proposed legislation requiring cursive handwriting instruction in public and private elementary schools. Supporters argue cursive writing has cognitive and ...

All of those texts are blocked to the generation that’s been spared cursive lessons, unless they’ve been translated and typed — something that’s a lot more likely for widely important historical ...