The loops and curls of cursive handwriting have all but vanished from college essay exam blue books. On rare occasions when college students write by hand, nearly all of them use what educators ...

And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 percent of them write exclusively in script. Another 8 percent write only in print, while ...

That may sound like a ringing endorsement for cursive handwriting, but when asked if cursive writing is better for a child's development than printing, Bastian makes it clear: She doesn't know.

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Most adults at one point took penmanship or cursive handwriting in school. ... Lindzie Armstrong, 8, said she would rather print if she had a choice. Typing is also pretty easy, she said.

The majority, 55 percent, wrote a hybrid: some elements resembling print-writing, others resembling cursive. Advertisement. When most handwriting teachers shun cursive, why mandate it?

The handwriting of many teachers comes close: even though, often, those teachers have never noticed that they are not at all writing in the same 100 percent print or 100 percent cursive that they ...

For many young students, cursive handwriting is a lost art form, dismissed in favor of typing assignments on school Chromebooks or on educational apps. But for Lauren Hand, an eighth-grader at St ...

That cursive handwriting will no longer be taught in the elementary schools of several states has recently made many headlines. In reaction, we say, "Hooray! It's about time." ...

Intelligence and the lost art of cursive writing. Most children are taught to print the first few years of grade school and, depending on the school, either they stay with printing throughout ...

LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - Though some schools no longer teach cursive handwriting, Lufkin fifth grade students Rodrigo Santos and Trinitie Reese say they actually prefer writing in cursive. “Because ...

Cursive handwriting instruction is returning to elementary school classrooms in New York City. Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña has committed to include cursive writing in third-grade curriculum ...