The Atlantic magazine recently ran an article on the demise of cursive writing, and judging from the letters to the editor, there are still many people who believe that the inability to write in ...

Learning to write cursive well has enormous motivational and emotional benefits. First, writing cursive is a form of drawing, and children naturally love to draw.

Students in South Carolina could soon begin learning how to write in cursive beginning in second grade instead of fifth grade.

The South Bend Community School Corporation Board has unanimously passed a measure to return cursive writing to the curriculum.

If it becomes law, the bill would require students in all public South Carolina elementary schools to learn cursive, beginning in second grade, and continuing through third, fourth and fifth grades.

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 ...

Lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the South – are carving out space in teachers’ classroom time to keep the graceful loops of cursive writing alive for the next generation.

House bill 4709 would amend the South Carolina code to make it a requirement that cursive writing be taught in public schools.

The Finnish board of education will remove teaching cursive handwriting from its curriculum and replace it with inculcating keyboard typing skills. The board this week announced that the change ...

Schools vary greatly in their beliefs as to when pupils should be taught to join their letters when writing. But educational research points to the value of learning and using cursive handwriting ...

Sharon Flesher, South librarian, said she first started learning cursive in second grade in the year 1967. "It was expected that we knew how to write cursive through school." Flesher said turning to ...