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 ...

I found pages of cursive worksheets that she’d done over the school year. “I hate it,” she said, tossing the pages into the recycling pile. When she’d moved on to something else ...

But cursive is making a comeback amid concerns that learning to use a keyboard had superseded handwriting skills that are important for intellectual development — and also that a new generation ...

So, is learning cursive a useful, beneficial part of education (those without it may have a hard time developing a signature, for instance)? Or is it time to move on from this quaint relic of past ...

Advertisement We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a ...

The Golden State joins 22 others that have made cursive a mandatory subject in their standards of learning, according to a website dedicated to cursive instructional resources and tracking ...

More than a decade after it was phased out in most schools, elementary school students in California will begin learning cursive writing next year — thanks to a new law. Let's take a moment now ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. We also want to know how learning cursive affects the ...

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 ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...