Cursive writing can be important to brain health and confidence, experts say

Kentucky lawmakers and education advocates are bringing cursive writing back to every elementary classroom. Backed by cursive ...
Fox News

Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

Cursive Writing Is Becoming Mandatory in More Public Schools. Here’s When the New Law Goes into Effect

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The return to including cursive instruction is especially meaningful as New Jersey celebrates the upcoming 250th anniversary of ...
Mental Floss

Learning to Write in Cursive Might Not Be as Important as Your Teachers Told You

There is plenty of scientific evidence indicating that writing by hand is an important skill. Compared to typing, writing by hand seems to activate the brain in ways that help you process and remember ...
Inverse

The Common Core Push to Kill Cursive Is Bad Futurism Badly Executed

There are a lot of things about Common Core not to like, but perhaps the most viscerally unlikeable tenant of this leviathan educational system is the effort to eliminate cursive from elementary ...
ZDNet

Writing in cursive with your eyes

If you're anything like me, you've completely forgotten how to write in cursive. Some people argue that's a shame, and that cursive is a wonderful, beautiful way of writing. Other people don't see why ...
Los Angeles Times

Do we still need cursive writing? Some states say no.

This post has been corrected, as indicated below. So many people have unhappy stories about learning cursive writing that a popular new instructional method is called “Handwriting Without Tears.” I ...