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 ...

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 ...

Ask anyone who completed third grade in ... or have a favorite letter to swoop and scrawl. Then a generation of Americans skipped this rite of passage as teaching cursive writing was phased ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ...

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 ...

They lament writing ... cursive—but that number has been steadily increasing. This year, Kentucky became the latest to legislate the matter, with children expected to be proficient by grade ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Two lawmakers have introduced bills that would require students to learn cursive handwriting in Missouri schools. Missouri State Reps. Renne Reuter (R-Imperial) and Petty ...