For weeks the students have been learning, and complaining, about cursive writing. Like Latin, it’s a dead language — er, lost art — and I was determined to resurrect it. The students completed ...

Cursive seems to be becoming a lost art amongst young people who spend far more time typing on their phones and computers ...

As it stands, just 24 states require that cursive is taught in the classroom. But cursive handwriting is making a comeback of ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth ...

Though sometimes the oldest writing is the easiest to read ... Not only was I brushing up on my cursive, but my old English as well,” she said. The Archive’s Isaacs is clear that volunteers ...

Unlike math and English, cursive is not a learning standard in ... write within the lines of a paper, or trace letters. Students move their arms when writing, practice good posture and hold ...

As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, which is up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From ...

As cursive instruction fades from many classrooms ... This approach helps students recognize orthographic patterns—common letter groupings in English. “If children are drawing each letter as a ...

We also want to know how learning cursive affects the development of reading and writing skills. In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in cursive ...

“Cursive writing isn’t just a skill ... Students in grades three through five learn cursive as part of their English language arts curriculum, but evaluations of proficiency are not required.