After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting ...

the House Student Academic Success Subcommittee will consider proposed legislation requiring instruction on cursive writing in grades 2-5. By the end of fifth grade, students will then need to ...

As digital learning continues to expand, a bill is ready to go to the full Florida House that would require public elementary school students to learn cursive writing. The House Education & Employment ...

with cursive letters appearing around the walls of classrooms beginning in the third grade. As of 2024, 24 states — including Florida — require students to learn cursive, according to ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are ...