But we had thousands of teachers that would send in handwriting samples that were awful, just terrible." So after 25 years, Trafford canceled the handwriting contest.

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 ...

Context. In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills.

Handwriting Sample Required. Published: Jul. 16, 2008, ... Third grade was when the Palmer Method of Cursive Handwriting was introduced. ... with handwriting like that, ...

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Not all schools dedicate curriculum time to teaching cursive writing anymore. But at Academy of Our Lady of Grace, Solan said she devotes about 20 minutes twice a week to it.

A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

Cursive writing may be a lost art since the advent of keyboards and smart phones, but not in Alabama public schools. A new state law will make sure of that. Lexi's Law, which goes into effect Aug ...