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 ...

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 ...

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. “It’s too much to ...

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 ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

He opened the card, looked at it and said, “I can’t read cursive yet.” Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not ...

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. “It’s too much to ...

He opened the card, looked at it and said, "I can't read cursive yet." Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been ...