Cursive started falling out of favor in U.S. schools after 2010 when most states adopted Common Core academic standards.

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 ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

And visual-motor coordination is used to write each letter and adjust movements as needed. Besides potential benefits to overall writing and reading development, cursive handwriting continues to ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of sorts for K-8 ...

If you have a child in the Philadelphia School District, chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are ...

By the end of grade 5, students would have been required to demonstrate they are proficient in cursive writing though an evaluation of written work. That included being able to write in both ...

chances are they have not been taught how to read or write cursive either. We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting ...