To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

Cursive writing lessons will begin in second grade with instruction for how to write lower-case and upper-case letters. By third grade, students should be proficient in writing words and sentences ...

Cursive writing, once a staple of elementary education, is vanishing from classrooms across the United States. A Michigan ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and ...

Minutes ticked by and most of the students, 9-year-olds in teacher Brittney Chapman's class last spring, had formed only a few words or a single sentence on a lined worksheet.