Halle O'Brien writes during after-school cursive club, held by teacher Sherisse Kenerson, at Holmes Middle School in Alexandria, Va. In Sherisse Kenerson’s after-school classroom, Sandi takes out a ...

Heather Eriksson, a homeschool mother, says her family keeps cursive simple. “We just utilize worksheets, and the more you practice, the better you get at doing cursive,” she said. At the Eriksson ...

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

New K-12 English language arts standards build on state’s reading progress by reinforcing fundamental skills essential to ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that's not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are among the latest states to require cursive handwriting to be taught in elementary schools.

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Separating students’ knowledge from their handwriting can leave teachers feeling like they’re detectives sifting through ...

Mo Njie works on a cursive lesson in Erica Riffner's class at Hillside. Riffner says she tells her students it’s important for them to at least be able to read cursive. Riffner helps Ava Tomcykowski ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.