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 ...

What happened? It is called the Common Core. We now know handwriting is a way to learn about a person. It is crucial.

Fast-forward 30-plus years and Sister Margaret Mary was the first person who came to mind when I read about two New Jersey ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers?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 ...

If you cannot decipher cursive, you can’t really experience literature’s great works in their original version. Same for history’s more important letters, diaries, ledgers and other records, including ...

Ask Kendall Grabinski what she does well, and the fifth grader from Lehman-Jackson Elementary School mentions gymnastics and ...

Once children master handwriting, they don’t have to worry about letter ... kids are connecting the action of putting letters down, whether it’s cursive or anything,” said Brenner, who ...

Once upon a time, “keyboard” meant an expensive typewriter that weighed 40 pounds, so teaching penmanship in school seemed ...