Studies find many elementary school teachers have had little-to-no preparation in how to effectively teach handwriting, and a University of Iowa special education professor has developed a free ...

For anyone interested in learning about cursive handwriting and teaching it to their children or students, the Iowa Reading Research Center will release a free online course and curricula called ...

In this digital age, who needs to know how to read and write cursive? The State of Georgia says all third through fifth graders will learn again how to do just that. Channel 2’s Lori Wilson went ...

I had the last laugh. Lousy penmanship didn't stop me from becoming someone whose profession depends on shaping letters.

Several states in recent years passed legislation mandating instruction in cursive handwriting.

Developmentally progressive instruction allows children to learn handwriting. An open-educational resource by literacy and writing experts supports instruction for kindergarten to Grade 3 children.

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.

To teach cursive handwriting, or not to teach it, is a topic that can divide, but recently updated educational guidance in Ohio comes down on the side of teaching cursive handwriting.

“I was so excited to learn how to write in cursive in elementary school,” said Jayme Rost, a second-grade teacher at West Point Elementary in Greensburg.

The key to learning successful handwriting, whether cursive, italics, or calligraphy, is well-controlled visual tracking and high-speed neural responses to the corrective feedback.

Opinion Learning cursive is good, but kids really need to know how to type for the modern world | Opinion Updated: Jan. 09, 2024, 8:33 a.m. | Published: Jan. 09, 2024 ...

Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try Story by Shawn Datchuk Associate Professor of Special Education, University of Iowa • 1w ...