COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The ...

and this “brain mapping” has shown that during cursive writing both right and left hemispheres of the brain are active, something that isn’t happening either while keyboarding or even ...

The following interactive tests your handwriting by challenging you to draw cursive ... compare your letter to the one commonly taught in schools. If you had any trouble, don’t despair.

April 30, 2013 Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose ...

“One of the things we were thinking is that if we put cursive writing in, there would be all this practice of forming your letters,” she said. “But if we didn’t have it in there, it wasn ...

Mallad said. He came up with the pen pal idea and shared it with the teacher, Karen Gunter, after he sent a letter in cursive to his daughter away at camp and she couldn't read a word he had written.

Some believe that cursive is essentially archaic, the importance of which is relegated only to checks, signatures, and the occasional love letter ... cursive just isn’t practical.

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is ...