The neurodivergent brain doesn't always acknowledge the difference in letter formation: a student with dyslexia or dysgraphia might compensate by using capital letters P, Q, B, and D. Cursive, on ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

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 ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, they entail a learning burden that would be better spent on other, more useful tasks.

A-hed; Cursive Is Coming Back, Now That Kids Can’t Read Grandma’s Letters More than a decade after many wrote off the handwriting style, states are bringing it back ...

The letters p,q,b, and d all look the same in print (don't believe me? Write them down right now on scrap paper) but different in cursive. In New Mexico, however, cursive is no longer a part of ...