Studies find many elementary school teachers have had little-to-no preparation in how to effectively teach handwriting, and a University of Iowa special education professor has developed a free tool ...

Learning cursive might not be a waste of time after all Brianna Bell Special to The Globe and Mail Published September 1, 2023 Updated September 3, 2023 ...

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 ...

Much of the debate over teaching cursive centers on its relevance in an era of tablets and smartphones, its role in brain development (not proved), and its use as a decoder of historical documents.

Even before the new law took effect on Jan. 1, cursive was a California learning goal in grades 3 and 4, but the state and school districts had not enforced its teaching or tested to see whether ...

Cursive had its moment, somewhere between powdered wigs and the Pony Express. Kids today should be learning coding, robotics, digital literacy and how to spot AI-generated nonsense, not perfecting ...

"The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults." Frontiers in Psychology (First published ...

The ultimate goal is to get every child college and career ready. That means, cursive is out and keyboarding is in. Repetition and rote learning are passe while critical thinking is, well, critical.

Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards' "Foundations" for grades 3-5. This involves learning how to read in cursive as well as developing the fine motor skills to form legible letters and ...

Georgia classrooms reintroduce cursive writing for students from third to fifth grade, making it part of assessed coursework.

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing.