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

Forget Marx vs. Mises. You want to get a spirited debate going, ask pretty much anyone over the age of 8: Should kids still be taught cursive writing? I posted this question to Facebook, and for the ...

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.

The forgotten art of cursive writing — speedily putting words to paper in flowing connected letters — received a major blow almost a decade ago. Teaching the skill in grade school was dropped from the ...

In the fall of 2014, a piece of news caused quite a stir in the education community. One of the societies most renowned for its quality educational environment, Finland, was going to eliminate the ...

LORAIN COUNTY – ‘Can anyone tell me why we’re writing in cursive?’ asked Laura Deery, a second-grade teacher at Washington Elementary School in Lorain. ‘Write faster,’ students said, ‘write better.’ ...

"We cover all the letters by the end of the year," Johnson said, adding by that time, "they should be able to write in cursive." As students move on to higher grades, they review and refine their ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Traditional handwriting is making a comeback in schools in one state after a new bill was just signed into legislation. On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will ...

A Missouri school district says it may stop teaching students how to write in cursive because they say technology has made it obsolete. Do you think cursive is still a worthwhile lesson to teach in ...

Cursive handwriting is often described as a lost art. So why not teach it in art class? That’s exactly what one Ohio school district plans to do. At a time when some states are dropping cursive ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The swirling lines from Linden Bateman’s pen have been conscripted into a national fight to keep cursive writing in American classrooms. Cursive. Penmanship. Handwriting. In years ...