In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most ...

Back then handwriting instruction was simply in the cursive (the word is derived from Latin for ... by side doing our warm-ups and writing our practice sentences. The italic alphabet started ...

Both handwriting and typing involve moving our hands and fingers to create words on a page ... they're just messy," she says. As kids practice writing "A," each iteration is different, and ...

Those concerns have reached state education departments and legislatures, with at least 24 states now having some kind of cursive ... from handwriting—the process of reading words by sight ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some of which are implicated in learning and ...

Then a generation of Americans skipped this rite of passage as teaching cursive writing was phased out of ... ough endings in words become a visual pattern that our amazing brains can instantly ...