We know it's important for children to have competent handwriting skills, but does it matter if they write in cursive or ...

As Florida students settle back into their desks, there are a few new laws on the books, including required testing of cursive writing and providing teachers more training to work with students with ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive, or else they don ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, "I can't read cursive yet." Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

Educators studied practices in some of the world's highest-performing systems, including in Finland, Estonia, Singapore and Japan.

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As Florida students settle back into their desks, there are a few new laws on the books, including required testing of ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Until the early 20th century, children in the U.S. were generally taught to write in ...