This basic life skill was phased out in 2010 with the introduction of the controversial Common Core curriculum — and our ...

In many schools today, the traditional pen-to-paper notetaking has been replaced with tablets and personal laptops. At the front of most classrooms, where giant blackboards were once the focal point ...

New Jersey schools will now teach cursive writing to grades three through five, sparking debate over its relevance in a ...

Nearly 40 years later, the admonishments of my second-grade teacher at Thomas Jefferson Elementary in Anaheim still ring in my ears. “Messy! Messy!” I was a precocious 8-year-old, placed in a ...

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, ...

HB 127 would put in state law a requirement to test elementary students on their ability to write and read cursive.

Commentary: We wrote book reports. Essays. Love notes. Cursive was our only mode of written communication in school once we ...

I made biscuits and muffins to take to a senior morning group. I wanted them to stay warm, but I didn’t have a heating tray ...

Beginning in September, New Jersey public schools must begin teaching cursive writing to students in grades three to five. A ...