The Denver Post

Colorado schools are beginning to write off cursive handwriting

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Twenty-three second-graders file into Virginia Edwards’ technology classroom at Grant Ranch School, take a seat at their iMacs, pull on headphones and launch ...
KQED

Should Schools Still Teach Cursive?

Sophomore Andrew Forbes of Nashville, Tennessee, used cursive everyday in elementary school, from third grade through eighth grade. He was required to write out all his papers, worksheets, and notes ...
The Conversation

Cursive handwriting is back in Ontario schools. Its success depends on at least 5 things

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education. It is a ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

Cursive writing helps students do more than sign their names

SUGARLOAF TWP. — Students in second grade began a lesson on cursive writing without using paper or pencils. They stood up and started to recite: “down curve, under curve, over curve” while moving ...
Los Angeles Times

Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...
CBC.ca

This B.C. teacher is teaching cursive — and helping students win national handwriting awards

Anyone of a certain age can remember finally grasping the concept of printing letters, only to have the bomb of cursive writing dropped onto your desk not long after. For some, cursive was a way of ...