In California, a new law will require all students there to learn cursive handwriting — a skill that had been mandatory for generations, but started to fall by the wayside in the digital age.

At Greenbriar East Elementary, the cursive lesson is a hybrid of old and new. Students have pencils in hand, but their ...

It’s about a girl who refuses to write in cursive and, as a result, finds that she can’t read it, either. “Sadly, cursive isn’t the preferred style of writing as it once was.

Practice writing each letter over and over until you can make the same shape consistently. Lined paper helps you to keep the parts of the letter in proportion to each other.

Some people believe children still should learn how to write in cursive while others believe it's time to erase the form of handwriting from curriculums.

Learning to write in cursive may no longer be popular in American schools, but education experts stress that the craft can be beneficial to students in more ways than one.

Therefore, elementary school students in the district are not explicitly taught to write using cursive handwriting. However, students are still taught to print early in their education.

Cursive writing is a skill many of us learned growing up, but it's unfortunately not part of the mandatory curriculum in Michigan. As a result, many children are missing out on this valuable skill.

Graham said far more important than whether students are printing or writing in cursive is that they are being given assignments that encourage them to write well-thought-out sentences and paragraphs.

Benefits of handwriting The increased interest in cursive handwriting likely stems from effort by policymakers to improve the literacy performance of K-12 students across the country.

If they can’t write it, how will they communicate from unwired settings like summer camp or the battlefield? “The Constitution of the United States is written in cursive.

He says he is going to use cursive when he gets older to "to write a book." One of the problems with teaching cursive today is that it tends to get squeezed out by other curriculum priorities ...