In preparation for Mother’s Day, third-graders at Roosevelt Elementary School recently learned how to write a few of the capital cursive letters that they’ll need for poems for their moms, including ...

What do the U.S. Constitution, birthday cards and your signature have in common? They’re (likely) all in cursive. However, becoming fluent in this form of penmanship, once the hallmark of a good ...

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to ...

Baltimore County Public Schools aims to determine if a cursive handwriting pilot program for second- through fourth-grade classes can enhance writing fluency while increasing academic confidence.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation mandating cursive instruction in New Jersey schools. Was it really worth it?

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It’s becoming a hot topic: Should elementary school students be required to learn cursive writing? In this digital age, when typing on a keyboard is the norm even for preschoolers, the graceful ...

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"It's much more likely that keyboarding will help students succeed in careers and in school than it is that cursive will," said Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of K-12 policy and leadership at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing ...

I have every reason not to support the State Board of Education's proposed cursive-writing requirement by the end of third grade. It’s done me no favors. But as a mom of three girls ages, 11, 10 and 7 ...