After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...

And even some elementary school teachers confess they don’t know how to write in cursive. This might sound like the handwriting apocalypse doomsayers have warned of for generations. But it’s ...

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said. “It doesn’t have to be ...