The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

Handwriting is more than just a motor skill ... on a big piece of paper or a whiteboard and hear her talk about it. Take a lower case, cursive letter “L” Nancy Cushen White: Starts on the baseline, ...

As of this year, 24 states require cursive lessons — up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From California to Alabama, ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

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. Handwriting.

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...