Back to School Cursive writing in American schools: Here's where this 'dying art' is still taught and why it matters There are 21 US states that currently have cursive in their curricula ...

That may sound like a ringing endorsement for cursive handwriting, but when asked if cursive writing is better for a child's development than printing, Bastian makes it clear: She doesn't know.

Published Jan. 26, 2016, 12:10 p.m. ET View video A Washington state lawmaker wants to change the handwriting on the wall — by reviving cursive as required course work for grade-school kids.

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… ...

With typing often replacing writing in so much of our daily lives, will cursive fade away if it’s not taught in schools — and does it matter?

Cursive handwriting plays a part in developing them. Yoder said it helps stimulate the brain in a variety of ways that can have long-lasting implications in a way that typing does not.

Not all students are getting that type of exercise, however. Suzi Figueroa, a teacher for 36 years, most recently as a third-grade teacher at Monte Vista Elementary in Phoenix, says her students ...

Handwriting skills or cursive writing begins around third grade or age 8 and is then continued and refined through elementary grades. There are many penmanship activities that a kindergarten and pre-k ...

Everybody types now anyway." Well, there’s a report out showing that psychologists and neuroscientists have discovered a link between handwriting and broader educational development.

McKnight said cursive could be incorporated during writing or spelling lessons beginning in third grade. “You don’t have to have this as a stand-alone subject,” McKnight said.

Cursive should continue to be taught, both to connect us to the past and to write more thoughtfully in the future. Kathryn Merrifield is a writer who lived until recently in Mamaroneck.