When was the last time you saw cursive letters on your computer screen, cell phone or tablet? No wonder students lose interest in cursive writing. By middle school or high school, most students print ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kids are spending more time on computers, phones and keyboards, and they are losing the ability to do the cursive handwriting that children have done for generations. "I never really ...

As the world rapidly moves away from the need to write information by hand, there are still many U.S. states still teaching cursive instruction to American children. California and New Hampshire ...

The style of handwriting taught appears to influence retention of instruction, according to study of 756 school children. If you are going to spend classroom time teaching handwriting, then you’ll ...

America’s handwriting has gone south, says Barbara Getty, a handwriting and calligraphy instructor, and she thinks she knows why. Cursive, Getty believes, may be the problem. “The old looped cursive ...

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Cursive writing may have gone out of fashion, but numerous states across the country are moving to reintroduce it into their elementary-school curriculums. Although Texas, the latest state to embrace ...

I never liked writing by hand. Growing up, I envied the girls in my class whose squeezably round printed letters strung together like garlands, while I could barely keep my words inside the lines of a ...