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.

State Superintendent Richard Woods introduced the "John Hancock Award" to recognize schools excelling in cursive instruction. When younger students return to Georgia public schools this fall, they ...

The study — based on 6,498 randomly sampled tests administered between March 2005 and January 2006 — revealed that 15% of the essays were written in cursive and received a slightly higher sub ...

Cursive handwriting is a fine motor skill that allows for plenty of practice. For people with developmental dysgraphia this can have a range of benefits to improve these skills. 6.

Georgia's new education standards require teaching cursive writing to students. The move aims to strengthen fine motor ...

THE ISSUE. More than 20 states have reintroduced the practice of cursive writing after the Common Core standards dropped requirements that the skill be taught in public elementary schools in 2010 ...

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 ...

Though this writing style basically aims at making your answer sheet look good, cursive handwriting has mental, social, physical, and practical benefits too. This wonderful practice can make you ...

Writing in cursive also eliminates common letter reversals because the movement and flow required to write letters in cursive makes it impossible to write a letter backward. I picked two key reasons ...

A Harris interactive poll in July showed that 89% of both adults and children believe it’s necessary to practice reading and writing in cursive. Educators in the trenches remain sharply divided.