Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Good handwriting is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means to literacy that fundamentally transforms the human experience.

Bring back the practice worksheets of yore, perfect that slant, and — please — loop those lowercase Ls and Gs. Just as phonics-based reading recently returned to favor after years of emphasizing whole ...

It may soon be required for students in Tennessee to learn cursive handwriting. According to WREG, a proposed bill that was brought before the Tennessee House this week, House Bill 1697, would require ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 20150929 A Facebook post showing a teacher’s frustration with a 7-year-old student writing her name on an assignment in cursive ...

For well over a century, elementary school students were taught the loopy, fluid handwriting style called cursive. Then came the rise of digital devices, and schools began to prioritize teaching ...

Kate Gladstone is the founder of Handwriting Repair/Handwriting That Works and the director of the World Handwriting Contest. April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest ...

A new state law calls for old-fashioned cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary school – but the Princeton Public Schools is ahead of the pack. The legislation, whose co-sponsors include state ...

How badly does 15 minutes a day for one third-grade semester impact other subjects? Not much. Why all the controversy? My third-graders loved to practice handwriting because I always wrote short, ...

BALTIMORE - If you're of a certain age, you probably remember learning cursive in elementary school. While penmanship has largely been erased from most curriculums, at some schools, it's still alive ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...