Today, I would say few kids know how to write in cursive. The Common Core standards call for teaching legible writing in Kindergarten and first grade but then it switches to keyboarding.

Q: California is notorious for passing laws. Our son is in the fourth-grade. He has to learn cursive now — that’s the law? Are there also other new laws we should know about? B.C., Woodland ...

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.

It comes as good news to see that a local lawmaker’s proposal to require cursive handwriting to be taught in Pennsylvania’s ...

Teaching kids how to write in cursive can help teach them to become better readers and spellers according to Iowa's reading research center. The non-profit, housed at the University of Iowa, works to ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

Is cursive writing a skill that's still worth teaching, or an out-of-date concept when most of life requires tapping on keyboards? Sept. 8, 2015, 9:10 AM PDT / Source: TODAY A. Pawlowski ...

Cursive handwriting – when is the last time you used it to write something other than your signature? With so much of our lives online now, the occasions to get out the pen and paper are getting ...

"The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults." Frontiers in Psychology (First published ...

I understand that handwriting imprints the memory better — I notice it even in adulthood — but I am skeptical that there is a reason the handwriting is better done in cursive.

Q: California is notorious for passing laws. Our son is in the fourth-grade. He has to learn cursive now — that’s the law? Are there also other new laws we should know about? B.C., Woodland ...