A series of random questions answered by Harvard experts. Catherine Snow is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education ...

Recently, my 8-year-old son received a birthday card from his grandmother. He opened the card, looked at it and said, "I can't read cursive yet." Then he handed it to me to read. If you have a child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 20150929 A Facebook post showing a teacher's frustration with a 7-year-old student writing her name on an assignment in cursive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In California and Ohio, children start learning cursive in 1st grade. The process has not been without its controversies. More ...

In response to a growing trend where public schools are dropping the teaching of cursive, I wrote a blog post defending the value of learning cursive. 1 The new Common Core standards, adopted by 45 ...

Not everyone is convinced cursive deserves a comeback tour.

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Georgia Department of Education has revised its ...

Twelve-year-old Sandi Chandee wants to be a doctor when she grows up. But that’s not why she memorized one of the longest medical terms in the English language ...

Years after it was omitted from the Common Core standards, some students are practicing cursive in clubs after school and in libraries. Some states are bringing it back to classrooms. Credit ...