The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of ...

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 ...

For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

As of this year, 24 states require cursive lessons — up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From California to Alabama, ...

McKnight believes students should be able to write in cursive to sign legal documents and read personal keepsake letters and historic ... “We have to try to fit it all in,” Durelli said.

Cursive handwriting could be poised to make a comeback in public schools, more than a decade after the practice faded from ...

I started learning to write in kindergarten, but that of course was in script, with separate letters ... on in cursive, you know what to look for, so you get good at reading all kinds of ...

Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined ... enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone something ...

McKnight believes students should be able to write in cursive to sign legal documents and read personal keepsake letters and historic ... “We have to try to fit it all in,” Durelli said.