Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a recent ...

Gabriella Rustebakke watches as her son, Paul Rustebakke, practices writing his letters in cursive during a lesson at their home in Cedar Rapids in April 2023. Research at the University of Iowa has ...

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While cursive has been relegated to nearly extinct tasks like writing thank-you cards and signing checks, rumors of its death may be exaggerated. The Common Core standards seemed to spell the end of ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

It’s a familiar refrain. Parents lament that technology is turning good, legible handwriting into a lost art form for their kids. In response, lawmakers in state after state – particularly in the ...

Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing ...