To the editor: As a 77-year-old who won my school’s penmanship competition in fourth grade, I’m pretty happy that California kids will be learning cursive handwriting. (“Learning cursive in school, ...

Like it or not, cursive writing is returning to countless classrooms. At least half of the nation’s states have adopted policies requiring cursive writing instruction in recent years. That reverses a ...

Cursive is making a comeback. States and provinces across North America are re-introducing the continuous form of handwriting ...

The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Break out the No. 2 pencils, kids. Cursive handwriting, long mourned as a lost art, is coming back to New Jersey schools thanks to ...

Harvard professor Drew Gilpin Faust was teaching one of her undergraduate history seminars when she made a surprising discovery: Her students could not read cursive. "I just stopped in my tracks, I ...

For many, the return of mandatory cursive handwriting instruction in the Ontario curriculum, starting in Grade 3, is a welcome and long-overdue move on the part of the Ministry of Education. It is a ...

Cursive handwriting is thought of as a dying skill in the world of computers and keyboard.

In the digital age, most kids learn how to swipe a touchscreen before they learn how to say their own names. They can ...

(WXYZ) — There's a big push to bring back cursive handwriting in Michigan. There are 21 states that have mandates for cursive to be taught in the classroom, but ...

Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school. The post Florida Kids Must Now Prove Cursive Proficiency Before Middle ...