The Common Core standards don’t require instruction in cursive writing but some states — including Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana and California — have mandated cursive in public schools. With typing ...

News that many schools across the nation, and the state, have dropped cursive writing from their elementary curriculum has received criticism from those who believe handwriting is essential to the ...

Vicki Zurkowski wonders if today’s cursive handwriting will be tomorrow’s hieroglyphics — an ancient form of writing decipherable by only a few experts in a specialized field. The Elmhurst mother was ...

Even though many students type up their homework on iPads and pass notes using Google Docs, some area teachers are certain cursive is still relevant, and they wouldn’t mind if Indiana House Bill 113, ...

When Celia Batan sat down to write her graduate thesis, she started with one question: “What do we lose if we do not teach children how to connect letters instead of printing or typing?” On the ...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (WNDU) - Cursive writing may be something of a lost art, but the South Bend Community School Corporation Board has unanimously passed a measure to return cursive writing to the ...

Oscar Sanchez, a fifth-grader at Enders Elementary, works on his cursive handwriting on Thursday. The class is trying out an old-school handwriting curriculum to see how explicit cursive writing ...

Over the past decade or so, something big has been happening in public schools throughout the United States: Instruction in cursive writing has all but disappeared, cut from curricula as schools bring ...

Cursive handwriting instruction is returning to elementary school classrooms in New York City. Schools chancellor Carmen Fariña has committed to include cursive writing in third-grade curriculum in ...

Regarding your article on cursive writing (Cursive needs to die already), what is it being taught instead of cursive writing? I attended a public elementary school in Passaic. I started first grade in ...