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 ...

Georgia's updated English Language Arts standards will require cursive writing instruction for students in grades 3 through 5 ...

"Very small proportions of adults use cursive for their day-to-day writing," Polikoff said. "Much of our communication is done on a keyboard, and the rest is done with print." ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.

"Very small proportions of adults use cursive for their day-to-day writing," Polikoff said. "Much of our communication is done on a keyboard, and the rest is done with print." ...

Although cursive handwriting “is a dying field,” as one teacher said, ... But at a small school in Maine, cursive handwriting thrives, ... and one that includes every letter of the alphabet: ...

The laminated papers with cursive-writing instructions, taped to every one of the tyke-size school desks with the sweeping attached arms, were sad and beautiful at once, in the special way of ...

Yes, dying like cursive writing lessons in classrooms across the country. One letter left me with more questions than answers: “Please tell us what dead body you saw.” ...

Letter writing along with cursive script is going the way of the dinosaurs if it is not extinct already. ... I can see a use for it, even though it is a small one.

She opened it and realized it was a handwritten letter in cursive. Her first response was, “Uh oh.” She had immediate doubts if she could read cursive years after she learned it in elementary school.

Hence letters of the alphabet have to be joined, resulting in cursive writing. In America, cursive hand at elementary grade schools has become obsolete. If it exists anywhere, it is taught at a ...