Cursive Handwriting Will No Longer Be Taught in Schools Because It's a Big, ... Also, the capital, cursive "Q" looks so stupid. PHOTOS: Check out these celebrity kids' back-to-school styles!

Cursive is not required by the Common Core curriculum, though a few states have mandated it. And a survey of handwriting teachers by Zaner-Bloser, a cursive textbook publisher, found that only 37 ...

Before you can write cursive letters, you have to know what they look like. ... Before you choose a guide, take a look at how they form the letters. Capital Q and Z are weird as hell, ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national curricula in 2011, the debate on the value of learning penmanship has raged. Some argue that the skill is ...

The standards say that students should begin to write capital and lowercase letters of the alphabet, and begin to sign their first and last names in cursive. Last year, when Staunton City Schools was ...

The neurodivergent brain doesn't always acknowledge the difference in letter formation: a student with dyslexia or dysgraphia might compensate by using capital letters P, Q, B, and D. Cursive, on ...

That argument has been made by cursive advocates such as Dickie Drake, a Republican state representative in Alabama who introduced a bill requiring schools in that state to teach cursive writing ...

Last week, elementary school students returned to the classroom in Archdale, N.C., with a new subject on the mandatory agenda: cursive writing. It’s a debate that has been simmering among ...

It’s good for our minds! Research suggests that printing letters and writing in cursive activate different parts of the brain. Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and ...