Experiment. Find a model alphabet Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. Search for “letter guides” that show the shapes and the order of strokes.

The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will ...

Writing in cursive remains a large part of our culture, Superintendent Graham said. “We need to be careful about losing that, because so much of the basics is driven by technology,” she said.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

Alabama and Louisiana passed laws in 2016 mandating cursive proficiency in public schools, but some penmanship experts say the writing style takes longer than up and down script.

Cursive should be easy to learn once one knows how to print letters, because there are many good books explaining the slight modifications needed to turn printed letters into script.

News that many schools across the nation, and the state, have dropped cursive writing from their elementary curriculum has received criticism from those who believe handwriting is essential to the ...