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 ...

Nimah Gobir: It is not proven that either manuscript or cursive writing is best. What does matter is that students get so much practice writing that they don’t have to think about forming letters. So, ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

Cursive handwriting could be poised to make a comeback in public schools after studies have found reviving the penmanship ...

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 ...

so you get good at reading all kinds of handwriting, cursive or otherwise. (It’s never too late to learn.) And generally speaking, writing in cursive is faster than writing in print. And like ...

In other words, the effect moving the hand will have on the reading and writing process ... The impact of handwriting and typing practice in children's letter and word learning: Implications ...

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 ...