Baltimore County Public Schools aims to determine if a cursive handwriting pilot program for second- through fourth-grade classes can enhance writing fluency while increasing academic confidence.

Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...

It’s quaint to read how common it was in the late 1920s, when sound had just come to the movies, to assume it was just a fad. More than a few people thought films had been better without sound — that ...

The rise of typepads and keyboards is rewriting school curricula and raising questions about the value of old-fashioned penmanship. Some kids now sign their names in block letters. Jonathan Baskin ...

“What does a cursive Q look like?” I asked my wife after dinner one recent night. We were helping our 5-year-old daughter form uppercase letters in manuscript when it occurred to me that I did not ...

When my mother-in-law sends cards in the mail, my teenagers often ask me to read them her notes written in beautiful looping cursive. Neither of my two oldest children, ages 15 and 16, learned to ...

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