On Mar. 1, 2017, photo, a third-grader practices his cursive handwriting at P.S. 166 in the Queens borough of New York. Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools.

Example of printing on its way to cursive handwriting. (Sibylle Hurschler Lichtsteiner) Steven Graham, an expert in special education, writing and literacy at Arizona State University, advocates for ...

The Campaign for Cursive non-profit group has launched its Cursive is Cool contest to help encourage the art of penmanship in young kids.

The Ontario example highlights that the debate over cursive’s place in education is far from settled. As AI handles more transcription tasks, the justification for learning cursive may shift — perhaps ...

Pen Heaven’s survey in the UK has found that 51.4% of participants still write by hand every day, while 21.4% jot down some words on paper at least once a week. On the other hand, 16.5% of ...

Cursive handwriting stimulates brain synapses and synchronicity between the left and right hemispheres, something absent from printing and typing.

While cursive writing could go the way of the Dodo bird or the buggy whip, some schools will continue to teach it. While it might not be a scientific fact that it helps with cognition and learning, ...

In Ontario this fall, Grade 3 students will be learning cursive script again, in a move that some educators are hailing as an important back-to-basics step to foundational education.

The Palmer Method was temporarily shelved when educators decided to teach children printing first and cursive later. “Handwriting in the United States meant cursive until 1921 when Manuscript ...

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 California ...