The time needed to teach cursive may explain why it’s being marginalized, if not outright ignored, in public schools. South of the border, at least 41 states do not require public schools to ...

Strong foundational skills The three-part resource comprehensively mobilizes research to explain the “how and why” of teaching cursive handwriting.

SASKATOON – Saskatchewan is holding strong on teaching children handwriting in school. Many U.S. states, as well as Ontario and Quebec, have taken cursive writing out of their curriculum. Tim ...

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 ...

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 ...

For starters, she says, handwriting is not an ancient skill. Troake found it's only been widely practised for about 150 years — in some areas, maybe even less, she said, pointing to parts of ...

"The Importance of Cursive Handwriting Over Typewriting for Learning in the Classroom: A High-Density EEG Study of 12-Year-Old Children and Young Adults." Frontiers in Psychology (First published ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some of which are implicated in learning and ...

Being able to read cursive is just the start of deciphering older documents, said the National Archive’s Nancy Sullivan. The handwriting of the 18 th and 19 th centuries isn’t what today’s ...

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.