HB 127 would put in state law a requirement to test elementary students on their ability to write and read cursive. Existing state law does not require cursive writing, but State Board of Education ...

Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she’s ready to follow the curvy ups and ...

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 ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is an impressively polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that ...

Cursive writing may be a lost art since the advent of keyboards and smart phones, but not in Alabama public schools. A new state law will make sure of that. Lexi's Law, which goes into effect Aug. 1, ...

Cursive writing may have been replaced by emails, texting, DM's and emojis, but not all educators are nixing handwriting lessons inside classrooms — and there are crucial reasons why.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

On a recent Tuesday night, I attended the parents’ open house at my daughters’ school, a Taft-era brick building in New Haven, Connecticut, which serves four hundred and fifty children, in grades ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Cursive is back in Iowa schools. The ability to read and write cursive has been fading from American society. “You just don’t see very many people using cursive because a lot of ...

Should schools teach cursive handwriting? The question is a polarizing one in the K-12 education world. One of the most widely cited criticisms of the Common Core State Standards is that they don’t ...