Learning to read and write cursive was once a rite of passage for practically every American schoolchild. Until the early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fourth-grade student Mandela Jones practices writing in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena. (Christina House / ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that’s not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Harford County Public Schools is bringing back cursive writing instruction to second and third grade classrooms this school year. The first day of school in Harford will be Monday. Cursive engages ...

We know it's important for children to have competent handwriting skills, but does it matter if they write in cursive or ...

There is plenty of scientific evidence indicating that writing by hand is an important skill. Compared to typing, writing by hand seems to activate the brain in ways that help you process and remember ...

I have always loved language. Even before I entered kindergarten a year early, I can clearly remember scribbling on paper and asking my dad if I had managed to make any real letters. Once I learned to ...

California has enacted a law requiring schools to teach cursive writing. For years, learning cursive was considered an outdated and unnecessary skill, but the heavy reliance on technology has led to a ...

"Here, as in many countries, the general approach to teaching writing is based on tradition rather than on educational research that has proven benefits," says the professor. The study, conducted in ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...