Writing by hand can help with literacy, but experts say not to stress if your child is struggling.

Across the country, cursive writing had been substantially abandoned for more than a decade in favor of teaching elementary school students to type after they learned to print letters.

Slowly ceasing, day by day, year by year. Once a privilege, now only found within a few. As learned in sophomore history classes, handwriting was first formed by ancient civilizations such as Rome, ...

It’s functional,” said Suzanne Asherson, a national presenter for Handwriting Without Tears, a handwriting program for teachers. “Cursive is faster and more efficient than print.

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Superior brain connectivity is found to be associated with handwriting over typing, urging a re-evaluation of the prevalence of digital devices in educational settings. Handwriting but not ...

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.