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 ...

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 ...

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relevance in an era of tablets and smartphones, its role in brain development (not proved), and its use as a decoder of historical documents.

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 ...

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.

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

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

In Denver Public Schools, for instance, many elementary schools teach cursive in grades three to five, but the focus is more about using technology in the classroom. And that is as it should be.

"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 ...