Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in California public schools | Dec. 3 The article regarding cursive sadly quotes an education professor who derides including cursive in school curricula ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The ...

ancestors' letters and journals, handwritten scholarship — if they can't read cursive." "The Constitution of the United States is written in cursive. Think about that," Bateman said. The ...

If this is not an indication that we need to teach cursive handwriting in school, I don’t know what is. It started as given name, middle initial, last name. When I got my driver’s license ...

The road map described in the Texas Education Code, for instance, includes requirements for instruction to begin with teaching second-graders how to form cursive letters with the “appropriate ...

It's been shown that learning to write by hand has cognitive benefits, but it makes no difference whether you connect the letters or not. Cursive doesn't make a signature more legal. And though ...

And as my kids were growing up, their grandmother was from Wisconsin, and she wrote them letters almost weekly, all in cursive. INSKEEP: Teacher Pam Keller in Fullerton, Calif., says her adult ...

Washington College in Maryland became the butt of the joke on late night TV last month after it changed its logo—George Washington’s cursive signature—because it was “difficult to read and ...