To handwrite letters or spell words in print or cursive, students need to commit multiple aspects of each letter to memory. For example, if students handwrite the word “cat,” they need to know ...

third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put graphite to paper, copying sample sentences like: Do you want to jump ...

For at least half the children in Balzano's class at Mount Pleasant Elementary School, learning cursive topped the list. "It’s fancy writing," said Naomi Toms, 9. Cursive was once a mainstay of ...

And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...

FAIRVIEW, N.J. (CBSNewYork)-- It's a long way off ... which makes him the third grader with the best cursive handwriting in the country. "I was proud of myself. My parents were proud," Aquino ...

My newspaper recently published a story by education reporter Margaret Thompson that discussed a Howland second-grade classroom that spends about 15 minutes per week learning cursive handwriting.

As followers of education controversies know by now, the Common Core academic standards, soon to be carried out by 45 states, don't require the teaching of cursive handwriting. The curricular gap ...

“During elementary school and middle school, I’ve never had to write in cursive. My teachers let me just write in print,” Falconer said. But for those with dyslexia, cursive handwriting can ...