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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Cursive instruction will be ... of Education require learning manuscript writing, aka print, starting in kindergarten. They also require second grade students to begin learning cursive and form ...

With this measure, students would have to pass an evaluation on their proficiency in writing, reading and applying cursive by the end of fifth grade. If signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis ...