Academics

Cursive writing is important in the learning process at Arma Dei Academy and it starts in kindergarten. By MARIA KONNIKOVA JUNE 2, 2014 New York Times Read more here  Does handwriting matter? Not very much, according to many educators. The Common Core standards, which have been adopted in most states, call for teaching legible writing, but only in kindergarten and first grade. After that, the emphasis quickly shifts to proficiency on the keyboard. But psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader…

According to Annie Holmquist in This 1897 Text Gives 3 Clues Why Today’s Students Can’t Write the Nation’s Report Card announced that only 27% of American 8th and 12th graders attained proficiency in writing. Why are American students such terrible writers? According to a text by Dr. Edwin Lewis entitled A First Book in Writing English, American schools, students, and even adults regularly violate three principles, which Lewis deemed essential to the writing process. 1. They Don’t Read High Quality Literature Schools often fail to present their students with literature selections, which demonstrate good examples of vocabulary, sentence structure, and other…