At a middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia, students are learning how to loop their letters together and form words in ...

Sherisse Kenerson in Alexandria, Virginia, leads a club of sixth- through eighth-graders who want to know the art of looping ...

Two and a half years ago, I presented a carefully thought-out argument for not requiring schools to teach cursive, calling it ...

Happy National Handwriting Day, everyone! Or rather, unhappy and hotly controversial handwriting day? That would honestly be more accurate. Because, for one thing, isn’t teaching handwriting somewhat ...

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 ...

CRITICS ARE CALLING THE BILL OUTDATED. >> THERE ARE 59 AYES, 39 NO'S’ THE BILL IS PASSED. >> WITH AN ASSEMBLY VOTE TUESDA SY,TATE LAWMAKERS PUSHED TO KEEP CURSIVE WRITING ALIVE. >> IF WE KNOW IT HELPS ...

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 ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Goodness, I hate writing cursive. Some people love it. They enjoy and admire the ...

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 ...

This article was originally published in Indiana Capital Chronicle. A new statewide survey shows that although most Hoosier kids attending private schools are continuing to learn cursive, far fewer ...

(WXYZ) — There's a big push to bring back cursive handwriting in Michigan. There are 21 states that have mandates for cursive to be taught in the classroom, but ...