A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an ...

New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among the most recent states to require schools to teach kids old fashioned handwriting ...

Florida lawmakers have approved new legislation requiring elementary school students to be proficient in reading and writing ...

The adult college student, earning his degree at a New York State college to better himself, was ticked off. His adolescent son couldn’t sign his name — not because he wasn’t a smart kid, but because ...

With the governor’s signature (no doubt in cursive), California Assembly Bill 446 was passed this October, making cursive instruction in public elementary schools mandatory in grades one through six.

(The Conversation) – 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.

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

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Sen. Jean Leising once again wants cursive writing to be a required curriculum in every public, charter and state-accredited private elementary school in Indiana. Such instruction hasn’t been required ...

If we are serious about improving outcomes, we must strengthen every foundational literacy skill, including handwriting.