And even Swedelson admitted, in a follow-up, “I often enjoy writing names and words in cursive while I’m on a call. It helps me listen more intently. Sometimes I write parts of birthday or ...

In cursive handwriting, the individual letters of a word are joined with connecting strokes, such as in a person’s signature. Cursive fell out of favor in U.S. schools over a decade ago. In 2010, most ...

It’s easy to make the argument that class time would be better spent teaching kids to type 80 words ... show cursive fires up areas of the brain that tracing, typing or even printing letters ...

You might have learned looped cursive if you grew up in Britain in the mid-20th Century – looped cursive requires that all letters in a word be connected ... disregard any trace of their ...

Since the U.S. Department of Education dropped cursive writing from standard national ... “[The] time kids spend learning to write curvy, connected words is time kids could be spending learning ...

They are writing off cursive script. At a growing number of schools, young students are no longer tracing curving L's and arching D's with pencil and paper, no longer pausing at the end of words ...

After watching her teacher trace the downward ... practicing the letter before moving on to the word “Catholic.” She looks forward to her daily cursive lesson, especially on the days when ...

If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing ... to create words on a page.