After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

The skill fell out of favor in schools, but states including Iowa are bringing it back and could see benefits, writes Shawn ...

As of 2025, there are 24 states that require cursive lessons, which is up from 14 states less than a decade ago. From ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand ... from easy Zorro-like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version. It was as though ...

After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive ... to write the lowercase letters. They traced a word already printed in the workbook and then tried writing it freehand ...