Graham said far more important than whether students are printing or writing in cursive is that they are being given assignments that encourage them to write well-thought-out sentences and paragraphs.

“Cursive is about connections, not the slant. It’s not calligraphy. It’s functional,” said Suzanne Asherson, a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, a handwriting program for ...

Graham said far more important than whether students are printing or writing in cursive is that they are being given assignments that encourage them to write well-thought-out sentences and paragraphs.

The writing may be on the wall for cursive handwriting. With a growing number of schools opting not to teach cursive, it may be on its way to becoming a disappearing art. So one New Jersey ...

A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...

I’ve been teaching writing now for 36 years, mostly at the college level, and I owe it all to that regular copying I did as a child. Tim Burke Middletown, N.J. The writer is a professor of ...

You remember cursive handwriting. It’s what we use to sign our names on, say, a check or other legal document. It’s fallen out of favor in the digital age, even getting dropped from Common ...