Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. But cursive handwriting is ...

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 1850, cursive writing was first introduced widely in schools, developed “based on fluid movements observed in nature,” according to the National Museum of American History. The irony is ...

There is also some evidence that learning cursive benefits the brain. “More and more neuroscience research is supporting the idea that writing out letters in cursive, especially in comparison to ...

Personally, I like cursive because writing it is so much faster and easier than printing. On the other hand, I find that many people my age are woefully lacking in computer skills. Many I know ...

My stumbling block: cursive writing. “Messy! Messy!” For weeks, our teacher lectured on this new way to communicate. I still remember some of the mnemonic tricks she used for some of the ...

My current long term classroom is in middle school. I became curious about how many students were able to sign their names or write in cursive. Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing?

“Researchers have credited learning how to write in cursive with an array of benefits for young students — from building fine motor skills to stimulating and creating synergies between ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing ...