Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

Education Most college students print as cursive writing starts to disappear on Oregon campuses Updated: Oct. 29, 2010, 12:55 a.m. | Published: Oct. 27, 2010, 11:55 p.m.

The standards require that students master keyboarding and a form of handwriting, either print or cursive, said Kathryn Hrabluk, who was an associate superintendent for the Arizona Department of ...

“All of my daughter's homework was done in print and she never had any handwriting homework. I asked her teacher about it at the parent/teacher conference and she informed me that cursive was no ...

It turns out, the real fear among those who study kids and handwriting is not that our schools will stop teaching cursive; it's what Steve Graham of ASU has noticed in recent years: "We don't see much ...

Since computers print letters, it is a more common style for the younger generation to read. But according to some studies, cursive writing has benefits that should have more people using it.

Most boosters of cursive don’t go down that road, but we need to grasp what drives nostalgia and how it can get in the way of understanding what kind of handwriting instruction makes sense today.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwritin… ...

When he studied what happened to students’ handwriting later in their school careers, he found that the students who mixed cursive and print generally were faster than those who stuck to one ...

Cursive writing is introduced in second grade about halfway through the school year and reinforced in higher grades. Rost uses a chapter book, “Muggie Maggie,” to introduce the skill.

And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 percent of them write exclusively in script. Another 8 percent write only in print, while ...