Students connect with seniors through letters in cursive 04:40. ... "And in the very first paragraph or two, he says, 'I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan and my favorite player's Dez Bryant.' ...

The study — based on 6,498 randomly sampled tests administered between March 2005 and January 2006 — revealed that 15% of the essays were written in cursive and received a slightly higher sub ...

Unlike Palmer-style cursive, in which every letter is joined to another in a series of endless curves and loops, italic joins only some. That makes it a far more natural way of writing.

Cursive writing, compared to printing, should be even more beneficial because the movement tasks are more demanding, the letters are less stereotypical, and the visual recognition requirements ...

Proponents of cursive writing instruction say that although handwriting isn’t as much of a life skill as it was 20 or 30 years ago, students still need opportunities to learn and practice.

Cursive writing is still taught in some schools within the U.S., although, it's not nationally mandated or emphasized. In ...

Memories of Cursive Writing. Did you learn it? Your experiences may vary. April 18, 2019. ... our teacher wrote sentences and paragraphs on the three slate blackboards in our classroom, ...

Students' reading and writing suffer when they don't learn script. Why Students Need to Know Cursive Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card ...

A 77-year-old who won an award for penmanship offers a compromise: Old folks teach kids how to write in cursive, and kids teach old folks how to use smartphones.