For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the ...

Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting instruction.

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 ...

But they’ve also been used effectively by artists to display various fonts in sentences using every letter and in children’s cursive and handwriting practice workbooks—you know, before ...

Although complicated handwriting like cursive may not be essential in school, basic print writing, or block letters, are used to teach most subjects. Pressing buttons on a keyboard may put ...