For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. Cursive instruction ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

The first thing we noted about the letters, written on super-light airmail paper, is that by today's standards, these ...

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 ...

With their heads bowed, the students carefully followed instructions from Durelli to write the lowercase letters ... about cursive writing. For now, they have the option to print or use cursive ...