Teaching cursive is once again the law for kids in California — news that adults greet with celebration, nostalgia, scorn, indifference and head-scratching. Elegant and indecipherable: Readers ...

Cursive “enhances a child’s brain development, including memorization, and improves fine motor skills,” she wrote. Advertisement. So does playing chess, but I don’t see Newsom appointing ...

In 2010, cursive was omitted from the new national Common Core standards for K–12 education. The students in my class, and their peers, were then somewhere in elementary school.

Berninger said that in cursive writing, each stroke is distinctly connected to the next. Children have to link individual letters into whole units, which mirrors the way reading comprehension turns a ...

I eventually learned to write cursive with a straight left hand, not the curved cramped claw that some lefties develop. Based on my ability to write in cursive, I may be older than some of you.

Baltimore sixth-grader claims national award for cursive handwriting 02:34. BALTIMORE - If you're of a certain age, you probably remember learning cursive in elementary school.

Well, now for another mind-melter ― there’s a very good reason why we call uppercase and lowercase letters what we do, and it’s because of the original printing presses.