Georgia elementary schools will require cursive writing instruction starting this fall. This change aligns with a national trend of reinstating cursive in school curricula. The new standards expect ...

The Times asked readers for samples of their cursive and to talk about their relationship with old-fashioned, longhand writing with its loops, curls and dips. A new law will require all California ...

Today is National Handwriting Day! When you think of handwriting, you may think of the way you write your name or your penmanship during notetaking but what about the way you write? In today’s time, ...

A variety of educators and politicians across the country are pushing back against the death of cursive, resurrecting the rite of passage. Here's why. Ask anyone who completed third grade in the 1980s ...

As many as 4%2C000 Arizona kids are expected to enter the Zaner-Bloser National Handwriting Contest this month. The Arizona College and Career Ready Standards do not require that students learn ...

A single sentence, uttered in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin, has catapulted an issue into the national spotlight. When asked if she could read a letter 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 ...

In the past 20 years, whether schools should teach cursive writing has been frequently debated: In the mid-2000s and 2010s, cursive writing was largely discontinued in favor of typing skills. However, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Kids are spending more time on computers, phones and keyboards, and they are losing the ability to do the cursive handwriting that children have done for generations. "I never really ...

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 ...