Every day students in Shannon Fields' fourth-grade class get a 15-minute cursive lesson. "Loop high, pull down, swing over, anchor off," Fields instructs his students at Dickson Elementary as they ...

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A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, ...

Cursive writing, when done right, looks like art: Letters flow elegantly into each other, the pen or pencil never rising off nor smudging the page. It is pretty. It is formal. But is it useful enough ...