After watching their teacher meticulously draw the alphabet in cursive on a whiteboard, students in Patricia Durelli’s fourth-grade class pulled out their pencils to practice writing the letters in ...

Cursive writing is included in the curriculum ... Without Tears” to teach them basic strokes and how to connect letters. During a lesson this month, she cautioned them not to hold their pencils ...

“The science behind it is that the kids are connecting the action of putting letters down, whether it’s cursive or anything,” said Brenner, who has a master’s degree in education and now ...

The measure would make cursive writing mandatory in elementary schools during the next academic year, citing brain ...