Escamilla finished teaching her fourth-annual, four-part cursive writing course Sunday virtually through the Waukegan Public Library, introducing elementary school students in the Waukegan area to ...

Opinion So kids will learn cursive writing. Does it really matter? Published: Aug. 04, 2016, 7:14 p.m.

Spear says practicing handwriting, especially cursive, helps these kids become better readers. The distinct curves and shapes are more likely to be retained in memory.

This is why cursive writing was usually recommended for children between the ages of 5 and beyond, so as to help fine tune their motor skills. It also helps perfect neural pathways and improves ...

When Jack Lew was nominated to be Treasury secretary in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that as a condition of the appointment, Lew would have to learn to sign his name more legibly. The secreta… ...

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

Learning cursive is good for children’s fine motor skills, and writing in longhand generally helps students retain more information and generate more ideas.

Reading cursive matters, but even children can be taught to read writing that they are not taught to produce. Reading cursive can be taught in just 30 to 60 minutes -- even to five- or six-year ...

We don't need to fetishize cursive the way our 19th-century ancestors did, but we'll do kids a favor if we start "developing 21st-century teaching methods" for reviving this dying art.