Over a half century ago, in school, we began learning cursive handwriting. Above the blackboard on a cork background was stapled the letters of the alphabet in capital and lower case in cursive ...

Left-handed people, about 10% of the population, are the subject of many legends: They reputedly are more creative and suffer more accidental injuries than right-handed people.

Cursive has been ... a strong foundation in print handwriting (AKA "normal" writing) including proper spacing of letters and accurate formation of individual letters. Guidance has also been given on ...

Pimentel points out that the K-5 language standards do require students to “print all upper- and lowercase letters,” so it’s not as if handwriting is left out of the document entirely.

I stopped writing in cursive about the same time I quit wearing white socks and penny loafers, which is to say, junior high school. In elementary school in the 1960s, my left-handed scrawl was ...

As a result, the physical act of writing in cursive leads to increased comprehension and participation. Interestingly, a few years ago, the College Board found that students who wrote in cursive ...