Like it or not, cursive writing is returning to countless classrooms. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted policies requiring cursive writing instruction in recent years. That reverses a ...

Three decades ago, research by James Pennebaker and colleagues (1986) revealed that expressing one’s deeper thoughts and feelings through writing can result in significant physical and psychological ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quill pen on old journal with parchment background and handwriting. “Reading cursive is a superpower,” Suzanne Isaacs, a community ...

Cursive is making a comeback. The looping handwriting style defined by flowing, connected letters had faded from curricula in places such as the United States, Finland and Switzerland as schools ...

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 ...

(TNS) — The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all ...

Cursive handwriting is thought of as a dying skill in the world of computers and keyboard.

Each of the 15 students in Mollie Sweeney’s third grade class raised their dominant hand. Sweeney, a teacher at Burrell’s Bon Air Elementary, then walked through the motions of how to write a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elementary school kids might be required once again to learn how to read and write in cursive. A pair of bills (HB 127 and SB 444) ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I’ll be honest: my handwriting didn’t come from ruler-wielding teachers in elementary school. It came from watching and mimicking my mother’s clear and elegant script. Her cursive ...

To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school. The post Florida Kids Must Now Prove Cursive Proficiency Before Middle ...