and by probably second grade were making that transition from easy Zorro-like lowercase Zs to the quite mature-looking double-squiggle of the cursive version. It was as though our handwriting was ...

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 ...

said she found lowercase Z tricky because “they don’t look anything like a Z” and loves making the bumps of an M. She thinks all kids should learn how to write in cursive. “It’s just ...