Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

In today’s time, we typically write in print format, but I remember a time when writing in cursive was a requirement. Cursive handwriting has long been cherished as a hallmark of eloquence and ...

Senator Lindsey Tichenor is a sponsor for the bill that will bring back cursive writing in elementary schools.

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

When the district was looking to adopt a new literacy curriculum, she said, it decided to buy the cursive writing supplement to try to address the handwriting concern. Two years in, Euker said the ...

Cursive handwriting can be considered an art form in and of itself. Punching keys from a computer keyboard or touching letters or symbols on a smartphone just do not qualify as an academic skill.

Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive ...

a law mandating cursive instruction took effect in January 2024. “For some students, it’s a great alternative to printing, and it helps them be more accurate and more careful with the writing ...

Cursive stopped being a mandatory part of Kentucky’s school curriculum in 2010 with the implementation of Common Core.

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 ...