Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Hawai‘i dropped cursive writing as a mandatory requirement in 2011. (Kevin Fujii/Civil ...

Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring proficient or above. Research suggests it may be possible to improve overall writing and reading through handwriting ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a ... fourth grade students scored proficient or above. Philadelphia’s numbers were worse, with just 19% of fourth grade students scoring ...

Teachers often have trouble finding enough time in the school day to teach all the expected writing skills, let alone cursive ...

What’s something kids can’t do, but teachers don’t teach? If you answered “cursive,” write a flowing capital letter “A” by hand on your report card. Once a staple of classrooms and ...

There's a new push to have students in Florida not only learn cursive, but become more proficient in it. Florida is currently one of 23 states in the U.S. that requires students to be taught some sort ...

If passed into law, Maine would join a growing number of states that require ... was introduced in the 1970s. Today, the cursive style used by “Handwriting Without Tears” — a popular ...

“We learned cursive, and then we could write like adults wrote ... “Recently, Nevada’s Secretary of State attributed its higher numbers of problematic mail ballots to young voters without developed ...

While plenty of people still sign their name in cursive, being able to read or write it is a different story. If you’re one of the dwindling number who can decipher this type of writing ...

Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at school, and being left-handed but forced to write with ...