“Every child should be exposed to learning — as well as the benefits of — cursive writing.” The research on cursive is hotly debated, with some experts saying that it leads to academic gain ...

(“Learning cursive in school ... Alan Sagat, Sherman Oaks To the editor: The inability to write cursive has led to an inability to read cursive. It is important to revive cursive teaching ...

Learning how to write cursive isn’t just useful for its own sake — as valuable as it is to be able to sign one’s own name. As the city Department of Education rightly pointed out ...

Texas will reintroduce cursive writing to the state curriculum for elementary students beginning in the 2019-2020 school year. Second graders will learn how to write cursive letters, and third ...

I write only in cursive and as most of my teachers would probably say, that is not a good thing. My cursive is atrocious. I learned cursive from second grade on but after I learned how to do it ...

At the Williams School in Norfolk, Mrs. Jo Hamilton’s 3rd Grade Class loves writing in cursive. Hamilton has taught the class for nearly 20 years. “When kids learn to write cursive they ...

A robust body of research extolling its benefits may explain why. Researchers have credited learning how to write in cursive with an array of benefits for young students—from building fine motor ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

The standards list the "ability to write legibly in cursive" as a required benchmark for second and third graders. It’s important to note that the Missouri Learning Standards are more of a ...

House Bill 1697 would require all public school students in Tennessee to learn how to read and write in cursive, preferably around the third grade. State Rep. Sheila Butt, R-Columbia, authored the ...

PHOENIX — Learning how to write in cursive could soon become a requirement for Arizona schoolchildren. The Arizona Board of Education is considering making revisions to its learning standards ...