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  2. Brent (name) - Wikipedia

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    Brent is an Old English given name and surname. The place name can be from Celtic words meaning "holy one" (if it refers to the River Brent ), or "high place", literally, "from a steep hill" (if it refers to the villages in Somerset and Devon ).

  3. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined, or flowing, manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster.. This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnect

  4. Cursive handwriting instruction in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2011, 41 states adopted the Common Core standards, thus removing the requirement for cursive instruction in the respective state curriculum. [3] When the system was revisited after the skill was taken out of the core requirements, school therapists reported that some students struggled with manuscript but excelled in cursive writing. [ 4 ]

  5. Penmanship - Wikipedia

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    Cursive – any style of handwriting written in a flowing (cursive) manner, which connects many or all of the letters in a word, or the strokes in a CJK character or other grapheme. Studies of writing and penmanship. Chirography – handwriting, its style and character; Diplomatics – forensic paleography (seeks the provenance of written ...

  6. D'Nealian - Wikipedia

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    D'Nealian cursive writing. The D'Nealian Method (sometimes misspelled Denealian) is a style of writing and teaching handwriting script based on Latin script which was developed between 1965 and 1978 by Donald N. Thurber (1927–2020) in Michigan, United States.

  7. Shunned in computer age, cursive makes a comeback in ... - AOL

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    Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive handwriting, after the skill had fallen out of fashion in the computer age. Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by ...

  8. Teacher reprimands 7-year-old for writing her name in cursive

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    Rogue teachers have been making headlines lately. Yesterday, we brought you the teacher who thinks left-handers are "evil," and today, the teacher who won't let her student write her name in cursive.

  9. Kurrent - Wikipedia

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    Kurrent (German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.