But the curriculum doesn’t mandate assessing printing skills themselves. In Alberta’s 2018 new draft curriculum yet to be implemented, cursive is mentioned, but it’s not identified as a competency.

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education.

Schools must and can do better, starting early. The key is not only teaching cursive, but a greater focus on all printing to cursive handwriting, spelling instruction and fine motor skills.

Assembly Bill 446, sponsored by former elementary school teacher Sharon Quirk-Silva and enacted in October, mandates handwriting education for approximately 2.6 million Californian students in ...

I collaborated with volunteers from the Bow Valley Calligraphy Guild in Calgary, Alta., and drew on more than 10 years of tracking and publishing data on young children’s handwriting to create ...

In Quebec, cursive is no longer an expectation in the curriculum. In Ontario, it’s still on the curriculum from Grades 3 to 5, but individual teachers say they often don’t have time to teach it.

The non-profit organization Campaign for Cursive is dedicated to educating kids and adults on the benefits of cursive writing. Committee member Edda Manley spoke with the Calgary Eyeopene r about ...

Q: California is notorious for passing laws. Our son is in the fourth-grade. He has to learn cursive now — that’s the law? Are there also other new laws we should know about? B.C., Woodland ...

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education. It is a ...