Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

One study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology found that cursive handwriting helps the brain learn and remember better, according to Psychology Today. Their data found cursive ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago.

Why learning cursive writing is now required by law in California. Once deemed an unnecessary skill, it is now a legal requirement By Rashad Milligan Jan 09, 2024; 1:52 pm; Photo ...

A bill for it to be taught in schools heads to the state Senate after passing last week in the House by a 195-8 margin.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

A third-grade student practices cursive writing in a 2023 file photo. To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in ...

And besides, because so many cursive letters differ significantly from their printed equivalents, they entail a learning burden that would be better spent on other, more useful tasks.