When Sen. Jean Leising first sought to add cursive writing to Indiana's required curriculum, she worried that kids who were no longer taught lessons in penmanship would eventually not be able to ...

Starting this school year, all Georgia students in grades 3-5 are expected to learn cursive, with the goal of reading and writing it by end of fifth grade. The state says cursive strengthens literacy, ...

Don't Write Off Cursive Teaching kids how to write in script is no longer a priority in American schools, but it should be.

With states across the country dropping cursive from their core curricula, some worry about the effect on young minds.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

Many teachers nationwide no longer teach cursive writing to students.

Most boosters of cursive don’t go down that road, but we need to grasp what drives nostalgia and how it can get in the way of understanding what kind of handwriting instruction makes sense today.

Handwriting matters, but not cursive. The fastest, clearest handwriters join only some letters: making the easiest joins, skipping others, using print-like forms of letters whose cursive and ...

Although cursive isn't required teaching in the state's public schools, many Catholic schools around Michigan still teach the ...

Unlike probably most people, I enjoy the act of writing by hand — but I’ve always disliked signing my name. Why is that? I think it’s because signatures are supposed to be in curs… ...

Every Monday we would crack the spine of our “Handwriting Without Tears” workbooks, an artifact of early 2000s elementary school curriculum, a time when public schools could still afford such luxuries ...