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 ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes .

B.C.’s provincial school curriculum doesn’t specifically include cursive writing. Grade 2 students are supposed to learn to print legibly, and provincial curriculum documents say Grade 3 ...

In a bipartisan show of appreciation for the twists and curls of cursive writing, state Sen ... headaches (and a D in penmanship in second grade). I eventually learned to write cursive with ...

Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

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 instruction. Why might cursive ...