I type all day. I swipe and tap on my phone. I scribble notes to myself on paper. I’m happy with my mostly-digital life. But every now and then I’ll get a handwritten note—from an old lady ...

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Brooks described the looping technique for lowercase “L” and then worked her way through lowercase “T,” “I” and “E,” explaining the differences between print and cursive versions ...

Lawmakers continue to fight for keeping cursive in the classroom, despite the growing power of the keyboard. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe. Sections. Home; U.S.

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don ...

Cursive has been banished to the pedagogical dustbin, a pointless, time-consuming exercise for a world that barely needs to print. A hard transition. This is hard to accept, for those raised with ...

Under the proposed standards, students would be expected to show they can write “many” upper- and lowercase in cursive at the end of second grade, demonstrate mastery in all letters at the end ...

Pimentel points out that the K-5 language standards do require students to “print all upper- and lowercase letters,” so it’s not as if handwriting is left out of the document entirely.