Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

The article notes that a study on cursive found that essays written in this form of handwriting received slightly higher scores. Suzanne Asherson of the group Handwriting Without Tears attributes ...

In today’s digital age, many see cursive writing as a relic of the past reserved for older generations. But a bill recently introduced in the Michigan House is spearheading a renewed effort to get ...

No more cursive (Nov. 28 letter)?Cursive writing is an art that requires control, thought and an intimacy with written words that is not possible with keyboard clicking.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In Louisiana, cursive is legally required to be taught in public schools.

Students connect with seniors through letters in cursive 04:40. Our ongoing series A More Perfect Union aims to show that what unites us as Americans is far greater than what divides us. In this ...

I am writing in response to your Sept. 24 article on cursive handwriting. About 25 years ago, I studied graphoanalysis, which is the study of handwriting to determine the personality and character ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and ...

Letters to the Editor: If kids must learn cursive, old folks should learn to use smartphones A fourth-grade student practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena last month.

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 ...