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 ...

with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction. Why might cursive ...

X I've got a lot of practice ... and writing in cursive helps me with my flourishes," Miller said. Kieffer and Miller were among 28 regional winners, four from each grade, who received an engraved ...

"In the 3rd grade, testing is conducted on the introduction to cursive while in the 4th grade, their writing skills are tested. In the 5th grade, both the letter case writing and the cursive ...

If passed, the bill would require cursive handwriting or joined italics to be taught at certain grade levels ... handwriting advocates argue that the practice has cognitive and education ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. In cursive handwriting ... 31% of fourth grade students ...