Palmer Drought Index

How many of today’s students know how to read and write in cursive? Currently, many American public schools no longer require their students to learn how to write in cursive. The reason for this is because many administrators believe taking the time to teach cursive detracts from more important skills such as mathematics or reading comprehension. However, there are multiple reasons why this skill is still valuable for today’s students. For example, knowing cursive allows people to read…

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Teachers should teach cursive writing because, compared to print cursive has a smooth flow and it takes less time to write for some people. A good thing about cursive is students with dyslexia therapy cursive can be instrumental in helping with the students read and write. Writing cursive is not just for the fact that it’s faster but also for the fact that its beautiful compare to print and it’s not just plain. Cursive is a beautiful way of writing words. At least 41 states don’t require cursive…

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Blown to Bits Chapter 4 was all about the organization of bits, and how the internet is organized. After all, there is simply so much data on the internet, one must wonder exactly how search engines such as Google can pull up websites from this virtual sea of chaos. Well, at first, the internet was mainly a repository for information. Websites were browsed in a hierarchical order, with the websites of most precedence appearing before those with less prominence, which makes a lot of sense if you…

Should Cursive Writing be Taught in School? Cursive writing, “the curlicue script that older generations viewed as the hallmark of a well-educated person” (Creno) has “been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years” (Shapiro and Voisin). Many states have chosen to teach Common Core standards which do not require students to learn cursive. Since schools are now teaching Common Core, they are trying to decide if cursive is still worth teaching. There have been many debates on the…

Cursive writting is indeed beneficial to a student's mental development, and therefore; should be thaught in school. Replacing cursive writting with typing and technology will do more harm than good to the student. I typing believe it will minimize their ablity to process and retain information, and is therfore essential to one's learning development. As a student myself, writing my notes by hand helps me process the information as well as remembering it as I write it down. There is no boubt…

Cursive writing is a viable part of education and brain health. Having the ability to write in cursive helps not only with medical documents, school documents, and simple bank signatures, but it also makes your mind stronger, and more diverse when writing anything down. I believe that cursive writing should be in the educational system. Growing up in a society where people always have to do some sort of paperwork, this becomes a needed factor for writing skills. Wouldn't you rather have you…

Should we let cursive die? Should it become a relic of the past. Should it be replaced just as a quill gave way to pens and how typewriters gave way to computers? In this day and age cursive is a useless skill but it is still something that is taught in schools. Cursive should no longer be taught in schools because it is unnecessary in a digital age, it takes time away from teachers to teach other topics, and it has no special values or benefits compared to other forms of writing This is…

Everyone hated 3rd grade when we would have to get out those worksheets with cursive writing. We never liked having to trace over those dotted cursive lines. Sometimes we would even try to skip class during that time, but we never knew all the good benefits we would get from writing for those 20 to 30 minutes. For example, cursive helps us develop fine motor skills and it reinforces learning. It can also help for signing legal documents. More importantly, it’s a cognitive exercise to keep our…