Penmanship

Neyda Borges is the author of “Why The Debate Over Cursive Is About More Than Penmanship”, an online article published in the StateImpact section of the NPR website. In this article, Borges discusses the debate about removing cursive handwriting from a school’s curriculum and whether or not it seems more than it is. She mentions how the real issue is not about teaching penmanship but that different socio-economic statuses affect many students in different ways and widen the “achievement gap.” She also argues that cursive is not the only thing that has been removed from the curriculum; other things such as learning grammar are no longer a part of it as well. Cursive is just one underlying symbol that leads back to one main issue: the advantages…

Cursive writing, good old script penmanship in flowing strokes with the letters joined, is causing an argument whether Common Core curriculum should implement cursive writing. Although California and several other states have been applying the cursive instructions in their curriculum, some states look forward to the collapse of it. As a matter of fact, people nowadays prefer the use of printing style because it is more legible than cursive. Educators acknowledge that cursive writing activates…

difficulty and adversity with handwriting skills, it will result in lower grades on writing assignments and papers, and has a negative effect on the quantity and quality of students ' writing, and influences how long students take to complete written assignments (Graham,2016). “Schools have kind of dropped handwriting from their curriculum and I think it might have been jumping the gun a little bit,” she says. “I think it forces us to take a second look at what handwriting might actually be…

Writing in cursive can improve a child’s handwriting. Children all over can learn to take pride in their penmanship. Cursive is also a much faster form of writing. Because of that, statistics show that students who know how to write in cursive actually scored higher on the essay portion of the SAT. Since they were able to write faster, they were able to focus on the content of their writing. Another obvious benefit to cursive is how it stimulates the brain. Writing all of the loops and circles…

cognitive abilities, like reading. My teacher, he wrote everything in cursive and encouraged the class to take notes in cursive, explaining that our brain processes cursive writing differently than print writing, stating it ‘opens’ our minds; It’s not just what we write, but how. With cursive every letter is a continuous flow, with print writing the student has to pick up the pencil every time to start a new letter. The goal in reading is to read whole words rather than individual letters.…

In Mexican cultures, November 2nd is “El Dia de los Muertos,” or the Day of the Dead. This celebration lasts a weekend and lets families honor their fallen relatives. The reason I mention the event is because I have always found it ironic that on a day where so many honor their dead mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters, I celebrate my birth. In a way, it has actually shaped my beliefs knowing that so many celebrate the afterlife on my birthday. In fact, it humbles me to share a date with this…

I am in the position of supporting the requirement for learning cursive in school. I may be biased because as a child, in early grades such as first and second, I was taught both printing and cursive. I remember my second grade teacher allowed us to choose between printing and cursive to finish standard writing assignments; though when sending us home with assignments specifically designed for learning cursive, we were required to complete those in cursive. My experience with using cursive…

Cursive In my opinion, cursive should not be taught in schools these days. I say this because, why learn another print, and cursive doesn’t help our brain, lastly, cursive writing doesn’t have an impact on our lives. So, what I’m trying to put together is that, cursive should not be taught in schools anymore. First of all, why learn another print? Yeah it is pretty cool to learn and be able to write in rsive and such, but. Learning cursive is a waste of time, and is very hard to learn. And,…

writing stories, you will learn that neatness is a part of being a writer. If you want to share your stories, your teachers and students will want to read that great story of yours. Anyhow, if people cannot read your story, then you will not be able to share your story. Whenever, you are typing your stories you will need more memory skills, to remember all those ideas you had. Including all of those facts, you will start becoming a better fluent writer. For example, you will have to learn,…

Regulation of certain sites on the schools’ servers will need to be put into place to help keep the students from getting on websites that are not beneficial to their learning. Because it is so easy to share anything using technology cheating could be a huge problem when introducing technology into the school systems. The honor system is not very reliable but many schools use this system. According to Alice Armstrong in “Technology in the Classroom it’s not a matter of ‘If’, but a ‘When’ and…