This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...
Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools ...
Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, ...
Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...
An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...
As one of his final acts, Gov. Phil Murphy paved the way for bringing cursive back ...
Because you are reading this in typeface (or maybe even listening to this in an audio format), cursive probably isn’t even on your radar. Who writes in cursive anymore? Maybe to sign checks or ...
Starting next school year, New Jersey elementary students will once again learn cursive writing, a move inspired by research ...
Elementary school teachers in New Jersey should be teaching cursive writing in 2026-27 thanks to a new law signed by Phil ...