Wind Advisory issued November 25 at 10:23AM EST until November 26 at 10:00PM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...West winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts up to 50 mph expected.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana and central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...From 10 AM to 10 PM EST Wednesday.
* IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
37° 37° light likely Wed 43° Wed 43° slight chance chance 24° 24° chance Thu 32° Thu 32°
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
Photo by Janie Southard/The Daily Standard

Third-grade teacher Nan Davis-Ferrall, of East elementary in St. Marys, guides Sarah Roby in learning cursive writing. Nationally and locally teachers are finding that many older students cannot read or write cursive as a move toward standardized testing and computer use leaves little room for the writing form.

Related online story:
Handwriting is on the wall
Some area middle school students cannot read cursive writing when they see it on the board. On a recent SAT test essay question, only 15 percent of 1.5 million high school students taking the test wrote in cursive. The rest printed. [More]
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