Sask. to keep teaching cursive writing By Staff The Canadian Press Posted June 19, 2013 8:34 pm Updated June 20, 2013 10:14 am ...

Cursive handwriting was reintroduced on the Ontario Grade 3 curriculum in June 2023, soon followed by California. Yet school instruction in cursive is bound for failure unless strong resource support ...

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.

A couple in Indiana developed a free writing academy to help young people learn how to write and read cursive handwriting.

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 ...

The problem, Couros explains, is that there are only so many hours in a school day, which is why teaching cursive handwriting is not a compulsory topic in most schools -- though it hasn’t been ...

The 180 13:21 Is it time to write off cursive writing? Recent policy decisions in Toronto, and the province of B.C. have people debating whether we still need to teach cursive writing in schools.

However, a 2012 study in Trends in Neuroscience and Education also found that cursive writing activated different parts of the brain in a group of five-year-olds, when compared with typing or tracing.

Cursive writing will return as a requirement in the classroom beginning this fall. Senate Bill 167, passed in 2024, ensures ...

As a retired teacher, I am confused as to why over $500,000 would be needed to teach Cursive writing. (See Sunday Paper under Odds and Ends.) All a student needs ...