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, ...

COMPTON, Calif.—In a classroom at Anderson Elementary on a recent Thursday, third-graders lined up to have their pencils sharpened to a crisp point before beginning a cursive lesson. The students put ...

Suzanne Baruch Asherson is a occupational therapist at the Beverly Hills Unified School District in California and a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, an early childhood education ...

Frisbee needs Mrs. House's help to sign his name! Watch as she teaches him how to use cursive letters to sign his thank you card. Rise and Shine is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Tyler Meder, a 13-year-old growing up outside Chicago, is a model eighth-grader. He's an early riser, a hard worker, and an honors student at school. Even back in third grade, he remembers being ...

On October 13, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill making cursive handwriting instruction mandatory in 1st through 6th grades. The legislation passed this year, but it could have just ...

The group of preteens uncapped their markers and began practicing how to capitalize two new letters: “B” and “Q.” The lesson felt like a return to the basics. Only this time, the middle-schoolers were ...

From the start of 2024, the state of California reinstated the requirement that first through sixth graders in public schools learn to write in cursive. The handwriting technique stopped being taught ...