Moreover, some assignments are still done on paper. Not everything in the classroom has turned to digital. Some teachers still have physical worksheets done by hand. There is still a need for writing ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

Cursive began fading from classrooms after California and 40 other states adopted the 2010 Common Core State Standards for English and math, ... For one assignment, ...

For now, they have the option to print or use cursive for their assignments. “I feel like for me it takes longer, and it just hurts my hand,” said Shane McWilliams, 9.

And while she often offers her students a choice as to whether they'd prefer to complete an assignment in print or script, she does insist they practice their cursive for 15 minutes every morning ...

The reasons used for cursive instruction and the variability of students receiving that instruction have a profound effect on what actually happens when it’s taught. Purpose and context matter.

For Faust’s students, a major consequence of not being able to read cursive was they had to dramatically change how they responded to assignments to avoid reading certain manuscripts. One student ...

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

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 ...

Cursive has been fading from classrooms for years, but some states — California most recently — have decided to bring it back. ... For one assignment, ...

The reasons used for cursive instruction and the variability of students receiving that instruction have a profound effect on what actually happens when it’s taught. Purpose and context matter.