After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

let alone something that’s not mandated such as cursive handwriting. In several national surveys, teachers have reported limited amounts of time for writing instruction and that they have found it ...

Cursive writing is included in the curriculum at Indian ... Durelli used a program called “Handwriting Without Tears” to teach them basic strokes and how to connect letters.

At Burrell School District, students learn handwriting at the elementary level. They learn to print in kindergarten and practice basic cursive in years following, but staff doesn’t spend an ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a ... and that they have found it difficult to address both the basic skills of writing, such as handwriting, and more advanced skills, such ...

Children today learn basic printing in first and second grade ... because the fine motor habits required for cursive writing are a different set from those required for printing.

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ...

Meanwhile, the 2024 Nation’s Report Card found that 38% of Ohio fourth-graders cannot read at the basic level. Mandatory printing and cursive handwriting instruction at the elementary school lev ...

Meanwhile, Switzerland only teaches basic script and, in 2016, Finland removed cursive handwriting from its schools too. With no global precedent one way or the other, school districts and ...

GRAHAM. INDEED. WELL, TEACHERS MAY SOON BE TEACHING CURSIVE WRITING FOR FOUR YEARS IN SOUTH CAROLINA THIS WEEK, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EDUCATION COMMITTEE APPROVED A BIPARTISAN BILL THAT ...