Florida's new cursive requirement makes handwriting mandatory for grades 3-5, with proficiency required before middle school.

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

A new Florida law will require students to be taught to write in cursive between grades 3 and 5 starting this upcoming ...

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Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why. The flowing ...

So I learned to write cursive many years ago. Wasn't very good at it and even had to take remedial cursive since I have a doctor's signature. Once I left home my Mom would include letters with gifts ...

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 ...

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, ...

Sierra Rivera and her older sister, Dahlia, were thrilled at the idea of baking up a batch of their grandmother’s pumpkin cookies last month for Thanksgiving, but when their dad gave them the ...

The national education standards, Common Core, aimed to kill the teaching of cursive. But it is not dead—just wounded. Yesterday, I did a radio interview on WHO in DesMoines, which bills itself as the ...