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 in ...

and by probably second grade were making that transition from easy Zorro-like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version. It was as though our handwriting was ...

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessment, a measure of nationwide reading progress, only 31% of fourth grade ... letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need ...

It's chosen because it contains every letter ... and writing in cursive helps me with my flourishes," Miller said. Kieffer and Miller were among 28 regional winners, four from each grade, who ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Washington College in Maryland became the butt of the joke on late night TV last month after it changed its logo—George Washington’s cursive signature—because it was “difficult to read and ...

Lawmakers are pushing to require cursive writing instruction and testing for second to fifth-grade students in Florida public schools. WINK News took to the streets of Fort Myers to see if kids ...

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 ...

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction ... few teachers report feeling prepared to teach handwriting. My own research with Grade 2 teachers found many were unaware ...

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade ... To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory.