There’s an effort by a state representative to bring back training for cursive writing in Michigan schools.According to our ...

Benefits of handwriting The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from effort by policymakers to improve the literacy performance of K-12 students across the country.

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...

Researchers point out that writing in cursive as opposed to typing on a computer may help kids' cognitive abilities.

Don’t force kids to learn cursive. Mine is terrible, and I’m doing just fine Tyara Brooks teaches her fourth-grade students how to write in cursive at Longfellow Elementary School in Pasadena.

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.

Concern about kids’ handwriting — we’re talking about plain old print here, not cursive (RIP) — is far from a new phenomenon. In fact, it’s been en vogue since the Baby Boomers were in ...

Get writing: a new study suggests that hand-penned cursive is better for learning than using a keyboard.

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 ...

As to cursive handwriting, I believe concern arose that young kids often are so computer reliant that focusing on actual handwriting will be a useful and helpful learning tool as well.