FULLERTON, California (Reuters) - A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school. Starting this year, California grade school students are required to learn cursive ...

To understand why cursive writing seems to be a dying art, you have to go all the way back to…well, only 2007, actually. It ...

Pennsylvania youngsters will once again have to learn the art of cursive handwriting as part of their schooling, under a bill signed by Gov. Josh Shapiro on Feb. 11. The legislation, sponsored by Rep.

As I was taking notes for this column, I thought it fitting to write them in cursive, a skill I spent many hours mastering ...

New bills would mandate cursive reading and writing instruction for Florida elementary school students. Students would be required to demonstrate proficiency in reading and writing cursive by the ...

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Georgia Department of Education has revised its ...

Shawn Datchuk is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. This essay from The Conversation is republished under a Creative Commons license. Recently, my 8-year-old son ...

ST. LOUIS — In 2010, more than 40 states adopted the same standards for English and math called the Common Core standards. Missouri and Illinois are among the states that have adopted the guidelines.

Many people of a certain age remember practicing loops and waves, moving our small hands clutching pencils across pages with light blue dotted and solid lines. But in many schools, that elementary ...

To the editor: Gustavo Arellano’s column on his traumatic experience learning cursive in the second grade brought back memories. More than 40 years ago, my son’s fourth-grade teacher complained about ...

Who needs a pencil and paper when we can just type or generate whatever text we need to? Actually, New Jersey students will, as they'll now be required to learn how to write in cursive by hand. This ...

Patience Gozaydin, 7, a second grade student at Frankstown Elementary practices cursive writing Thursday in Ann Franco’s class. Mirror photo by Cynthia Wise The flow of motion from putting pencil to ...