Cursive is back. But should students be learning the skill?

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

Cursive handwriting is making a big comeback. Here's why

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...
The Telegraph

Handing down the ancient skill of cursive letters

We learn things best as children, and they stay with us for a lifetime. Multiplication tables. How to tie shoes. Tell time. These are basic skills, and they’re locked in. I’m told you never forget how ...

The 25 states still requiring kids to learn cursive

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...
Des Moines Register

Can learning cursive help kids read better? Policymakers think it’s worth a try. | Opinion

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...