success is measured by thought formation, and the speed and efficiency in which it is communicated. Because of this, students need a variety of technologies, including cursive handwriting ...

April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose ...

Criticisms of student handwriting centre on a perceived lack of ability to write legible cursive in test situations, as well as in everyday life. Yet when was the last time you wrote in cursive?

So far, more than half a dozen states—including California, Massachusetts and North Carolina—have made teaching cursive handwriting mandatory throughout their public schools. More than 40 ...

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years. Now, with most states adopting ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories ... particularly in brain waves associated with memory formation, compared with when they typed those words instead ...

Turns out it’s mostly a lost art. Printing and typing? No problem. But cursive writing has truly become the hieroglyphics of this generation. I specifically remember being a fourth grader with ...

The Atlantic magazine recently ran an article on the demise of cursive writing, and judging from the letters to the editor, there are still many people who believe that the inability to write in ...

But despite the fact that most of us only use cursive to sign our names on a credit card slip, a vast majority of people— across the country— appear to agree with North Carolina’s decision ...