University of Leeds provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Schools in Finland, it has been reported, are phasing out the teaching of handwriting skills, a claim that has ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

News The Great Cursive Debate: Does Handwriting Really Make Kids Smarter? Published: Mar. 25, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

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 ...

In light of this, San Jose teachers gathered for a cursive workshop in the days following John Hancock’s Jan. 23 birthday, which is celebrated as National Handwriting Day.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters. This anti ...

Most boosters of cursive don’t go down that road, but we need to grasp what drives nostalgia and how it can get in the way of understanding what kind of handwriting instruction makes sense today.