My second-grader hasn't done any cursive learning yet, and she's not alone. "The issue is that the Common Core standards in the US are not yoked to typical development of handwriting," Berninger says.

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

She says her sister, mother, and even her uncles all had beautiful cursive writing. BROOKS: And while most kids might have been outside playing, I was often inside practicing my handwriting, so it ...

In this photo illustration, Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Hempfield, demonstrates how she teaches cursive writing in her classroom, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023.

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 ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is ...

Is handwriting, particularly cursive, really necessary in the digital age? Increasingly, the answer is not really. Common Core standards issued in 2010 do not include any requirements for ...

Nowadays, I’ve noticed that my handwriting is not as neat when I have to write a message and sign a greeting card. I remember learning to write on that lined paper in elementary school and getting a ...

"I practice a lot of drawing, so my artistic abilities come through for handwriting and writing," said Freya. The contest is sponsored by educational publisher Zaner-Bloser.

I always put a lot of effort into my handwriting, going back to the second grade, when I took my first cursive baby steps. And they weren’t easy. As you may know, I’m left-handed.

A July Harris interactive poll, sponsored by USA Gold Pencils, found that 89 percent of adults and 89 percent of children, ages 8 to 18, think it’s “necessary to practice reading and writing ...