Cursive handwriting is emerging as a learning tool for students with dyslexia, a disorder that makes it difficult to read or interpret letters, words and other symbols.

So many people have unhappy stories about learning cursive writing that a popular new instructional method is called “Handwriting Without Tears.” Do we still need cursive writing? Some states ...

"I'm not opposed to teaching cursive. I think we need to teach one style of handwriting really well, so that's it legible and it can be produced fluently. That could be cursive, but it could also ...

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.

In February, Arkansas lawmakers made cursive writing instruction mandatory in the state’s public elementary schools, beginning in the 2015-2016 school year. Tennessee passed a similar bill last ...

Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

Cursive writing has become a lost art for many in the 21st century. But at GRACE Christian, students are taught handwriting skills through fourth grade. Even in fifth- and sixth-grades, ...

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The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand ...

In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

Andrea M. Kane, Anne Arundel’s assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said the county does not require cursive, though some school principals may still choose to teach it.