Many teachers nationwide no longer teach cursive writing to students.

Or maybe she wrote her name in cursive. After turning in a homework assignment focusing on vowels, a 7-year-old girl named Alyssa received some harsh words from her teacher.

Cursive instruction sidelined In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature.

In a digital world, cursive whooshes back into the classroom Teaching kids longhand isn't required in Maine, and while some have argued that keyboards make it obsolete, a growing number of schools ...

Why cursive is hard to read Recognizing written words takes different skills than recognizing print— and they’re skills we’re letting go ...

Cursive goes the way of 'See Spot Run' in many classrooms, delighting students.

Will contends that cursive, in which the pencil generally doesn’t leave the paper until the end of a word, can combine with a phonics program to reinforce a left-to-right directionality that ...